Teaching is a profession that constantly adapts to changes in modern life and nowhere is this more apparent than in the use of technology.

A crucial aspect of preparing pupils for their lives after school is making them feel comfortable with devices and software that they may use in employment in the future.

There is also the educational benefits that technology can bring to consider and some schools in the UK will be given hundreds of thousands of pounds to test whether iPads and texting can be used to improve learning levels among poorer children in the UK.

The Education Endowment Foundation has announced a series of grants that will help people in teaching jobs use the technology in innovative ways and then the charity wants to collect evidence of how successful the projects are.

One of the schools that will receive funding from the scheme is Rosendale Primary School in Lambeth. The £253,000 grant will enable teachers to test the benefit of iPads in the classroom.

Pupils use the devices to take photographs and video recordings, they then tag the clips with notes about how difficult they found the work, so teachers can assess the exercise.

Another use of the funding will see £532,000 be made available to roll out a scheme which has been tested by teams from Harvard and Bristol universities. It aims to sends text messages directly to parents about their children’s progress in the classroom in a bid to motivate pupils and boost parental involvement.

As a teacher or somebody who is looking for a teaching job in the UK, what are your views on these schemes? The use of technology in the classroom is often seen as a positive thing, but can the money be spent on other areas of education that are in needed of investment?

Tell us your thoughts on the subject.