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I have no personal experience with student use of iPads, but one of my students just returned from a "TaskForce" (volunteer) year teaching high school, and reports endless problems with her students' using iPads in her classes: probably some of it was connectivity issues, some inadequate/incorrect filtering of websites, but often her students couldn't open their books, she ended up printing chapters for at least some students frequently. Assigned student research projects (read websearches) were frustrating - on the first page of hits most sites blocked, so students wasted much time and became frustrated.
Without knowing all the ins and outs of the situation, I can still draw the moral: the school administration shouldn't just hand the iPads to the students. Technology without support is often no help at all.
KC