All iPads The iPad is for creation and not just for consumption. A Rant.

[crouchingtiger]

You might want to get your eyes checked. I never said "Everyone" says anything. The 'debate' is not pointless because it is not a debate to begin with. I was merely expressing my frustration with those who assert that the ipad was designed as a consumption device and not a creative one.

Nice try though.

Sure, I'm paraphrasing, but here is your first paragraph:
"It has begun to irk my nerves recently when I hear or read people stating that the ipad "is for media consumption" and that content creation is better left to the PC or laptop. This is simply not true and I feel that most who make these comments are just ipad or apple haters."

Here is your "bottom line":
"The bottom line is that it is ignorant for anyone to state that the ipad is only a content or media consumption device. The ipad is the center of my digital and electronic life and it somewhat offends my intelligence when people imply that it is not capable of being a powerhouse of creative possibility. "

I stand by my post. I do apologize for my misuse of quotes in my post, when I meant to paraphrase.

 

[TheScribe]

I stand by my post. I do apologize for my misuse of quotes in my post, when I meant to paraphrase.

Apology accepted.

 

[kelon111]

How many professional artists use a Wacom Windows based tablet PC vs an iPad?

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As a teacher, my iPad factors heavily into my workflow and teaching.

In class, my iPad is mirrored to my classroom's smart board via my macbook air running air-server. This lets me control the content on the board while being free to move around the classroom (rather than be tethered to the front of the class). In addition, I can access more apps on my iPad than on my locked-down Windows Laptop, which in turn lets me do more. For example, I can annotate on PDFs just fine using notability; the laptop doesn't even have onenote.

Second, I am trying to record screencasts using apps like educreations, which I find to be more convenient than using software such as screencast-o-matic on my laptop, not least because the iPad app automates the whole process of recording and uploading it to their website.

Notability also holds all my teaching documents and materials (in pdf format), which I heavily refer to when preparing for lessons or teaching in class. I also use iWork's (numbers for tracking assignments, keynote for presentations, pages for word processing). I have also transitioned to iWork's on the Mac for documents which I feel I will not need to share with other colleagues, so Office gets used less and less every day. Other productivity apps like dropbox and evernote need no introduction.

There are also a variety of useful apps to try out in class like group maker (for quickly assigning pupils into random groups). Once, when I went out on an overseas exchange programme with my pupils, I used my iPad to take photos and update my school's blog via the wordpress app directly. The best part was that I was doing this real-time, while my colleague was struggling to get a wifi connection on her laptop to do the same, not to mention all the work involved in extracting photos from her digital camera, compressing them and uploading them at the end of the day, when you are already so tired and just want to rest.

My iPad is also my news reader, web browser and light gaming machine at home. As an example of how heavily it is used, I can end the day with it being at 30-50%.

TL;DR - I feel the iPad can be used for meaningful work, but it ultimately depends on the nature of that work, and whether people are willing to invest sufficient time and energy into discovering how to make that work and integrate it into their workflow. You are right, but it doesn't mean that other people are wrong, because it is true that there are still many tasks that the iPad (or any other tablet) can handle at the moment.

I've seen teachers (or professors) use iPads for teaching and writing. The problem is that the iPad doesn't have an active digitizer so if you have to draw complicated diagrams (or equations), even with a stylus , they aren't going to turn out that well.