14 DAY TRIAL // Cedars School of Excellence is the world's first iSchool thanks to the initiative of IT teacher Fraser Speirs who decided to replace pen, paper, and chalk with Apple’s revolutionary tablet computer - the iPad.
Speirs explained that such a move was imperative, with the 105 kids at the school being forced to share 12 laptops between them, according to the Daily Record.
After looking at their options, the school concluded that the iPad seemed to cover pretty much all of the students' needs for learning.
Plus, the device was much more mobile, and more intuitive.
Ever since the school acquired iPads, the students have been able to carry out more tasks, and learn stuff that is that not necessarily found in textbooks.
The pupils even use YouTube as a learning tool.
"We wanted to give each of the pupils an opportunity to use the best equipment available,” Fraser said.
"We began exploring the different options earlier this year and when the iPad was released we decided that this solved all of the problems we had.
"Each of the children will have their own iPad, which is hooked into the school's wireless network and from there they will use the computers for learning in different subjects.
"They will obviously be able to use the internet for research but we've found that it solves major problems for us - especially in science subjects as now they can watch experiments that would be too dangerous to do in class on YouTube,” the IT guy noted.
"They will also be able to look at pre-approved websites for lessons in English, maths, languages and history,” Fraser continued.
"Before we had the solution, the children were only able to get around 45 minutes a week on computing studies as they were sharing the existing laptops.
"But now they'll be some of the most technologically advanced in the world."
According to the report, Cedars is actually not the first to incorporate iPads for studies.
America's Stanford University School of Medicine is known to have adopted the Apple tablet as part of a trial program to integrate the mobile device into academics.
Softpedia covered the move in a report published last month.
Still, the Scottish institution certainly deserves the "iSchool" dubbing for porting most of its students' tasks to the tablet computer.