iPad for Education
Having just spent the last two hours following a number of live blogs and chatting with fellow fanboys on iChat I am left deliberating the iPad. Personally speaking I didn’t feel the buzz of excitement that came when the iPhone was announced and although I probably won’t buy one myself I do predict I will be surrounded by iPads by this time next year.
I think the iPad is going to end up the educational technology device of 2010. It fills a gap, rolling media players, handheld games consoles and the need for a laptop for homework into a single, affordable device.
The iPad could be used in class to take notes directly into Pages, classes could be managed with the calendar application, friends can be emailed, research completed on safari, books read on the ebook reader and for those times you are pretending to revise you have the iTunes store for the latest TV programmes, music and movies.
For home the iPad could offer a much more affordable solution over laptops for the studious offspring. A family Mac and a couple of iPads could offer an affordable yet perfectly adequate solution to family computing.
It is too early to say just how much of an impact the iPad will have on education but my initial thoughts are of much excitement ahead in the Apple classroom.
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Hey there Digmo…I follow you on Twitter and got here via there. And I somewhat agree with you but I think they missed out on something…while it seems to fit the bill for education, so does the netbooks out there. Yes it does more (or can do more in a sense – out of the box) but not much more. I think if they had the option of having a bluetooth phone part associated with the device it would have been something HUGE. This to me is just a glorified iTouch, no?
Anyhow – from what you said that you’ll be surrounded by many of these, no doubt but that doesn’t make it the best option, just alot of people that fall in love with the idea of it being an Apple device.
) Don’t get me wrong, I own both PC’s and Mac’s and they all serve a purpose (just like this will but not for me).
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The iPad isn’t the solution to this niche. The bloody laptop is. If you want affordable, get a netbook. It’ll be infinitely easier to type on. This device fills a niche that doesn’t exist. It fails, like the iPod Touch, to be either of the two products it’s attempting to unite, the smartphone and the netbook/laptop.
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The Ipad looks like fun to play with, but I doubt if you can really work with it? But many people will buy it because of it look.
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