Re: [apple-iphone] iPad in the classroom?
No...the keyboard will not be too small....ever seen an 11 year old text? LOL
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--- On Sat, 1/30/10, Jim Saklad <jimdoc@iname.
From: Jim Saklad <jimdoc@iname.
Subject: Re: [apple-iphone] iPad in the classroom?
To: apple-iphone@
Date: Saturday, January 30, 2010, 2:16 PM
> My school just bought 100 HP netbooks for all the fifth graders and next year, another 200 will be bought for 6th grade (the netbooks will stay with the grade not the student). Our IT director said the reason we went HP and not Macbook was purely financial--less than $300 each for a netbook.
Besides, the keyboard on a netbook may not be too small for 11-year-olds. ...
> I don't know of a school willing to pay $100-200 more for each iPad that can't word process, do powerpoint, photostory. My students' netbooks are loaded with software and there's no extra charge for data because they're wifi enabled and use the school's network. I can't see it happening in schools. Without a real word processor, it's not worth it for schools.
iWork includes a "real" word processor, as well as a spreadsheet and a presentation application, which can export, if needed, in Word format.
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