Crèche offers iPad class to its pre-schoolers

A Dublin playschool is now offering an iPad Montessori class so that children aged three to five “can achieve success in the smart economy”.

The class will combine traditional Montessori teaching with iPad apps that reinforce Montessori-based teaching methods.

For instance, if children at Little Rainbow’s Crèche in Donaghmede were learning about the life cycle of a frog they will still draw pictures of the spawn, tadpole, and frog before moving to watch a YouTube video on the iPad showing how the spawn changes over time.