Technology in School

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As the years pass, technology does improve. At the Consumer Electonics Show (CES) 2013, Kingston showed their first 1 TB USB drive, and other companies are starting to have their 4K TV sets as well as Google's Autonomous Cars. As for education, technology seems to have.. well in blunt terms wilt and stay in its traditional method of the chalkboard and the book. There are definitely some changes in education where it has changed into the dry erase board, but altogether it's not as huge a jump as how technology improves every year. As part of the change, our school is starting to give responsibilities into the incoming freshman next year by giving them an iPad for the four years. The iPad will consist of the books required for the course, and they will pretty much only need to carry that to class. It gets rid of mobility issues and will allow us to communicate more efficiently, but will also grant some security issues, like taking a picture of someone else's work and directly copying off of them. (Or of course, searching online for the answer instead of trying to solve the problem.) It's a large enough risk that the school board is willing to take for a better learning environment, yet in reality, from what my experience in having the iPad for the six months, it's much like simply buying an iPad, as our teacher rarely uses it for most activities, but it does fix the mobility issue of carrying "5+ encyclopedias". What are your thoughts on having improved technology in schools?