If anyone buys it at that price point..............![]()
$329 for base version...![]()
$299 in education quantity - since the consumer has to pay the $329....
If anyone buys it at that price point..............![]()
$329 for base version...![]()
Okay, cool. But how the foxtrot do you get the files into the iPad? If I have a few dozen scanned comics in cbr/cbz format, will they create a conduit of sorts so I can get them into my iPad without repurchasing them? Man, I really hope so.
I tried ages ago when I bought my first gen iPod Touch. There was an app called 'Pull Lists' which started off buggy and fairly useless and went . . . nowhere. It stayed buggy and useless.
I'm actually more afraid of it ending up starting at $400.Is it just me that is thinking Apple might have leaked the $329 price out and will then reveal a lower price to get people excited?
Yes, that was a nice surprise. Imagine if the iPad started at $1000, it'd a be a different world today (cuz the competitors would also maintain high prices then).Kind of how we were expecting a much higher price for the original iPad and then it launched with a lower price to much fanfare.
Obviously Apple wants to sell iPads. But many out there in education already have Macs. Unless Apple starts supporting iBooks on Mac OS X as well as iOS, I don't see iBooks taking off.
Says who?Apple apparently doesn't want the Mini (minipad) to take business away from it's other products like the iPad (maxipad) and iPhone impact on iPod sales.(
However, as much as I love my iPad it is just too big for me to take out & about with me ... it is purely an "indoor device" with me.
And which textbook service do you recommend?There are no serious textbooks on the iBooks store at all (at least none of the 25+ recommended texts for my course this year). Seems like just a gimmick at the present...
IT in education is currently institutional buying. Some day education may drift back to family centric or civic organization centric, which will drastically lower the cost of it as well as greatly improve the efficacy. It's just an iPad, but it is also every textbook and learning method right in the hand of the student. That could be a thing.
Rocketman
cite:
http://www.khanacademy.org/about
I normally liberally edit post replys but this one deserves some attention. The lack of particular content at one vendor is noted and even the guy who started it was on CNBC (financial) the other day talking about this topic and the fact there are now a wider range of folks creating content for the site. But any well versed teacher could create a 20 minute video as a tool for this or any other site.Yet notice that the Khan Academy doesn't cover english or language skills.
http://www.khanacademy.org/commoncore
Family centric or civic focused eduction shifts 100% of the costs to the individual units involved in the eduction process. Sadly this means that families that have both (or in the case of single parent, the one) working full time can't really make use of the Khan Academy on an individual level. Even if they can pay for the internet access and devices, there'd be no one around to help monitor and ensure children's progress in academic studies. If one assumes that a neighbor or some such will gather up multiple families children... then we're back to effectively private schools and tutors circa the 1700s.
*rant against the systematic dismantlement of public edition snipped*
Keep in mind that mandatory public eduction is barely 100 years old in the United States. For some morons and elite plutocrats it's still seen as little more then a holding tank for the lower classes offspring. All the gadgets and gizmos in the world will not turn back the clock on underfunded school systems.
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On to teach. The iPad does nothing for eduction. It does have the tools necessary to be in any way shape or from effective at what it should be doing. What it does have is promise, promise that educators and tech nerds have been drooling at since the introduction of computers into eduction, which has never come to the for front.
You want peek into this mystical world? Go read up on Alan Kay's Dyanbook, especially the original technical paper.
Unless iBooks Author 3.0 starts including hooks for adaptive assessment and a paper-less class/homework environment I don't see much that will be useful. iOS doesn't provide the tools for student monitoring or remote device control that are absolutely critical to classroom management in a purely digital era. Apple's Mac software does a better job of that at this point.
Unless Apple accounts a multi-user iOS for schools with Remote Desktop and Device Profiles (through local server software), the iPad(s) remain little better then a supplemental toy and not a real tool.
And which textbook service do you recommend?
Wrong
If you are lucky, Apple will gracefully give you 10% off.
I work at a school where we buy more than 500 macbook pros EVERY YEAR, no exception - and we can't get anything but the 10%.. which is not even for sure from year to year.
I use
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cloudreaders-pdf-cbz-cbr/id363484920?mt=8
Works really well for me.
At what price point? Apple hasn't announced any yet. Also no school or business that buys in bulk pays retail. Prices are negotiated, and often 20-40% below retail. Most companies think of Edu sales as a "loss leader," because students then go home and ask the parents for their own.