Live Coverage of Apple's Education-Focused Media Event

[dysamoria]

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Hm. This doesn't excite me without high-PPI displays. Books will still have better images and text unless iPad goes 'retina display.'

 

[krzyglue]

1) You evidently have never shared a locker that was too small for even ONE student.
2) You evidently drive or live very close to school and have a bus service that is free.

This is about the most silver-spooned response I have ever read...

I guarantee kids would choose iPad over physical books, and this is about getting kids excited to learn.

Sorry I feel like I'm missing something here. So you're saying that school districts which can't afford lockers or good bus service for each student should buy iPads for each student?

Of all the high-schools in my district, I can't imagine a single one adopting this idea. My high-school couldn't even get decent desktops for the computing lab (still running XP on crummy Dell boxes), I don't see how they're gonna go to iPads.

 

[generationxwing]

IMO, this press conference is a huge Trojan horse for public education. Suddenly, many more textbooks become affordable for home schooled children. Also, I would not be surprised if Teachers Unions start to oppose this and not let these in primary and secondary school. At the college level, this will do great.

Dude, I'm a teacher and I am ******** stoked. I'm sure some older teachers will be against it, but they can't fight progress. Teachers my age, I guarantee you, will cum in their pants when they get their hands on this.

 

[GRuizMD]

No it can't.

Anything they touch turns into $&^*%*%

BTW: The winner in the biggest lie contest:

I am from the government, I am here to help!

You should probably go to my native country, there is no government there. Things are a *little* more difficult tho..

 

[omenatarhuri]

STILL NO POWERBOOK G5!!!???

 

[SeaFox]

3)Not durable? Again, a joke, Apple.

There actually is a joke about this, well a quote from an Army general:

"A laptop with a bullet hole in it is worthless, a map with a bullet hole in it is still a map."

I can think of a nice update to that quote.

I can toss a book down a staircase, spill water on it, bend it weird and while it might be a little mangled, I can still read it. Can I do any of these things with an iPad and still expect it to work afterward?

Durable... Indeed!

 

[AustinIllini]

Ah, yeah, medicine never changes

In all seriousness, I would think with programming languages changing so quickly, that'd be a huge advantage to iBooks with updates available.

Due to fast-change I've already switched to digital references for drug and lab test references. I've also switched to ebooks for my textbooks where possible to save the weight.

Don't get me started with Medical education. It is ridiculous. Everything costs a load of money.

I agree with you, the iBook format is ideal for programming books, but could also work for Gray's Anatomy or Perry's Chemical Engineering Handbook

 

[DesignerOnMac]

Say what? We can't compete globally in education? Really? We don't have the best university system in the world?

you need to check your facts on the conditions of the public schools in the US. A lot of companies in the US can not hired graduating students since they do not have the skills. Also on a college level, most companies can not hire graduates because they either do not have the right skills, or they have degrees in the wrong professions.

 

[AustinIllini]

Also on a college level, most companies can not hire graduates because they either do not have the right skills, or they have degrees in the wrong professions.

This does not prove your point at all. American universities are the best in the world. Period. Has nothing to do with hiring.

 

[CFreymarc]

that seems a little paranoid, overly dramatic.

Thanks! Makes good press.

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If that is the case, disband them immediately as they have overstayed their welcome.

Agree. Freeze the union pension accounts, redistribute them to 401K retirement funds for individual teachers. Have the teachers as independent contractors to the school district. Have their pay scale based on parental reviews and the hell with seniority. Better, have these teachers work part time so they have a profession to share in the classroom instead of a backroom funded political agenda.