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Apple's 'Education Announcement' Scheduled for January 19 in New York City
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With those kind of illogical expectations, you are setting yourself up for complete disappointment.I really hope they announce the iPhone 5 at this event!
When will Apple announce the next generation iPhone? Most likely there will be a deafening crescendo of supply chain rumors, poorly focused stealth photographs of alleged replacement parts, and analyst predictions, leading up to terse e-mailed event invitation to select members of the media indicating some sort of impending announcement.
Well, we aren't there yet.
Yup, with Apple it will be DRM locked to the mandatory iPad that the school requires the student to purchase as a 'supply.'
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don't you think there's a correlation between the two? if you haven't seen it, you must work in a different environment than me.
Imagine how inexpensive eTextbooks could be, even with Apple taking a cut, as compared to print editions?
You've never tried to use an iPad in a brightly lit area (e.g. outside) ... don't get out much, eh?
Illegible fonts that the retina display will fix. bzzzt, wrong, everything will be tiny ... I think that's an "å" or ß
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I find that my students learn better in greyscale and that most find colour quite distracting from the main point. I don't allow highlighters in clas either.
Try doing that for a medical textbook where you are demonstrating the color of a tumor or the stain on a slide. I would also think it would be a bit of a mess when you are talking about a complex map or graph.
I think an education oriented iPad device has to be a possibility, in concert with the textbook manufacturers who would get some sort of cut in return for a new distribution paradigm. Kind of an ePad that someone else mentioned a couple pages back in this thread.
iBooks will be updated to allow mark-up of text and printing of eTextbooks, and it will be available on your new Retina Display enabled MacBook Pro.
No doubt there will be something that none of us has thought of. Frankly because we do not earn a living coming up with this stuff!
iBooks will be updated to allow mark-up of text and printing of eTextbooks, and it will be available on your new Retina Display enabled MacBook Pro.
No doubt there will be something that none of us has thought of. Frankly because we do not earn a living coming up with this stuff!
Think of the instant updates. Errors in the textbooks fixed as you read. Think of the fun teachers will have doing lesson plans while the textbooks change realtime.
Pretty sure this is the main reason that the announcement will likely only benefit "higher" education. If you're in college or university, the thievery and bullying factor goes down quite a bit, and there's more likelihood that students can work the expense into their lives, particularly if it supplants the need to buy paper textbooks that become obsolete every single year, and you're not likely to be pursued by some meathead just because you have the tools you need to learn. Through high school, giving kids an iPad for textbooks is just asking for it, though.
Look at what I found!!! I'm sure it will make you happy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPdXAyvWZdI&feature=endscreen&NR=1
Now imagine watching a video on dull paper-like display vs. a living color LCD-LED display.
And now, guess what the kids will choose!
I know, color doesn't look that good right now, but we just have to wait, it will get better.
Paper-like=doesn't break if you drop it.
eink=can last for up to a month with one charge
LCD-LED Display=can break if you drop it and doesn't last up to a month with one charge.
You decide, which is better for school?
LCD-LED is great for a media comsumption tablet or a laptop or TV, but OLED is the future anyways.
Again, give it time. The only problem I have with Digital Inc is that you can't read or watch it in the dark. Expect the image quality to double (color saturation and refresh time) every year until it exceeds the human eyes ability to see any differences.
Don't forget Digital Ink and E-inc have the potential to be much less expensive.
I'm going to guess this will start out more for the US K-12 system rather than college. Public schools spend a fortune on books and reissues and what not, digital text books would save them a lot of money in the long run.
I would also like to see Apple offer free digital textbooks to public schools that purchase iPads.
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Just a bit tentative, because at that point there wasn't a lot of the usual wild speculation which we love so much!
If it doesn't break, it will be dropped more often. Still, something has to break.
Watching a video on eInk is definitely not a battery-friendly task, but unless you live in the middle of nowhere or in the jungle or at some place with no electricity, there's no need to worry about. You will need lots of light to be able to read eInk at night and do homework, and that will take a lot of power!
If you are so worried about breaking the iPad or any other tablet, maybe you should consider a good protective case, like the one featured at this link:
http://www.space.com/14172-ipad-survives-fall-edge-space-video.html
Now... what do you prefer??
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New york isnt really "the big apple" anymore. Its based in California now, isnt it?
New york isnt really "the big apple" anymore. Its based in California now, isnt it?
Textbooks for iPad? A lower cost iPad for educational institutions? A lower cost MacBook Air or Mini or iMac for educational institutions? The possibilities are endless.