Question by David: Do you think it would be a great idea to use iPad’s in school?
Students can use the notes application to type in all of their stuff in. And with the cool user interface, they will never get bored studying. And handwriting wouldn’t be a problem. It will be fast and easy.
Mercuri–
Your just being bias. The iPad would be great in the classroom.
1. And you think kids will get bored with an iPod touch???
2. The keyboard is the same size as a regular keyboard. It wouldn’t be cumbersome it is the same.
3. They will also do the same thing with a laptop so you are giving no distinguishing reason.
4. And this is another technology. A better technology.
5. All you can do is read books on a Kindle. With an iPad you have learning apps.
6. This is very opinionated and untrue.
7. A laptop and an iPad are two different things buddy.
I hope I helped you out.
Best answer:
Answer by Nate
Are you an advertisement for Apple or something?
I’m sure an IPad would be just as useful as any other laptop in class. You can use it to take notes, and if the professor is really boring, go online and waste time. That’s how I got through college!
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I think it’s a terrible idea.
1) Students would get bored with it immediately, since it’s basically just a 10″ iTouch
2) It would be VERY cumbersome to use for typing
3) Kids would want to just play games on it or something
4) There’s already technology in the classroom
5) A Kindle would be a better device for learning
6) the iPad is pretty much garbage anyway
7) A $300 laptop would be better than the $600 iPad…
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I’d actually love it! Just think if someday I could have all my textbooks in an ebook form in that iBooks app!! I’d love it! I could take anything and everything with me.
I think that computers should be used more in education. I think that keyboards are not only useful to those with motor disabilities that make handwriting more difficult, but even individuals who can write by hand at an average speed can, in most cases, type much faster than they can write by hand anyway. Moreover, word processing software allows us to easily access dictionaries, thesauruses, translation utilities and grammar reference materials.
Furthermore, computer software such as encyclopedia programs provide a wealth of resources for both the student and instructor alike.
That’s not even taking into account what can be done with Internet access. Once you throw Internet access into the equation, the possibilities for educational use are simply mind-blowing in scope.
My university banned the use of computers. All papers must be handwritten. Calculators are forbidden, even in mathematics classes. The quality of the work suffers to an obscene degree as a result. Imagine writing a thirty page report for a class. Now imagine that, since you’ve written it by hand, you must write every sentence perfectly the first time or else you’ll have to start over from the beginning. You cannot delete a single letter, you cannot move a comma, replace a word with a synonym, revise sentence structure, delete a word, correct a spelling error or do any of the proof-reading and editing procedures that are so integral to the writing process. Not to mention the fact that many students and instructors *do*, in fact, have disabilities that make hand-writing more difficult; such individuals are doubly victimized by such policies. Denying the value of computer technology in education is nothing less than an unforgivably archaic throw-back to the repressive and antiquated groundless notion that a true scholar uses no resources other than his or her own strenuous efforts and that composition is an entirely internalized process. That’s rubbish. Nobody can learn in a vacuum. Technology expands education; it does not stifle it.