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Live Coverage of Apple's Education Event in Chicago
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It's actually a reminder that if you go Apple, you'll be locked down and restricted, and it won't play nice with anything non-Apple.
There are still quite a few educational sites (like WileyPlus) that won't work on iOS at all, even.
I don't let her watch YouTube. They've had a lot of problems on there with content slipping through their filters to the YouTube kids app. They even had sexual predators crafting specialized, questionable content to slip through and make it into the kid's section. It's horrifying.
I love how far off Apple is in their own universe with this presentation. You have demos of prep school students in rich private schools using the iPad for niche examples where it's useful, while totally ignoring the vast majority of public schools around the world, and in real world use cases.
Kids showing off their stick drawings properly...
For the 100th time, IT’S NOT A LIVE STREAMED EVENT!!!
I don't really think Apple 'Gets' the Chromebook and why they are so popular and used in schools.
Which should’ve been available the day the pencil was released.
I’ve been wondering why Chromebook are so popular in US schools and not outside the US myself.
Exactly. The iPad is great for some niche interactive portions of the classroom, but a vast amount of it is still about doing research and writing papers. The demo they showed of a teacher marking up a students report on an iPad, I mean to have the student research and to actually create that report on an iPad would be many times more time consuming.
iWork is a non starter. We are teaching skills that will be useful in the workplace. That is MS Office and Google Docs. Teaching them that is going to help them be employed.
Because they are low-cost and schools have budgets.
Chromebooks are popular because they are easy to manage, can provide a secure browser login for testing, and are cheap. They are not best in class at any single task.
Having said that, Apple needs an iOS device that has an attached keyboard and comes with the Pencil for under $350 to even be in the conversation.
Yeah, because an occasional comment is what is required to become a senator. Is Tim Cook the only CEO you've ever heard speak? Try to find one that doesn't use their position to advocate for their own self-serving ideology.
Or is your real problem with Cook that you've finally found one CEO whose views doesn't reinforce your own stereotypically texan ideology?
Every thread.
$329 for a new iPad with Pencil support and an A10 processor?
Forget the education market - these things are going to sell like crazy.
Forget the education market - these things are going to sell like crazy.
I sometimes wonder if I have an affinity for Apple because the first computers I ever used where the Apple 2 in school way back when