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| Topic Started: Jul 29 2011, 05:23 PM (330 Views) | |
| Polantaris | Jul 29 2011, 05:23 PM Post #1 |
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Die pig!
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My father just read in the paper that my School District, along with the new High School that's opening next school year, is spending 2.4 Million Dollars to outfit the entire school populace with iPads in efforts to apparently "go paperless". Thoughts about this? Personally: Stupidest idea ever. You're giving 13+ year old kids, who in my experience treat no material goods with respect, essentially free iPads, regardless of if it's just for the school year. Do people really think that they are going to not destroy, lose, and break these things? If it's truly in effort to go paperless, there's two HUGE issues with that concept. A) The school books still aren't free, in any way, shape, or form. You'll be able to read them on an iPad, but you still have to buy them. Might be cheaper, but not when you consider the 300+ dollar price tag of the iPad to begin with. B) The kids will still have to take these things home. Without books, that means they have to have some source material for their homework, essays, etc. That means they take it home, their little brother/sister sees it, and completely wrecks the thing if they haven't themselves. Combine that with other potential dangers, like dropping, dog destroying it, etc., and you have 2.4 Million dollars in paperweights by the end of the year. Let's not forget that this is an iPAD. That means they can play games, surf the web, read emails, text people, call people, play music, and do a million other things to be disrespectful and interrupt classes. Even if the iPads have a "School Only" mode, or something like that, I'd like to introduce people to a little thing called jailbreaking. It's done every day on a wide array of systems. Hell, you don't even need to do anything special to do it on a PSP anymore, think an iPad will be any different? I don't. Wooh, my town just wasted 2.4 Million dollars. The only way to do something like this is to try and introduce something like that early, before kids go nuts. Then they POTENTIALLY have better respect for the device by the time they hit high school. Introducing it immediately at a high school level is asking for problems. Every kid knows what an iPad is, how expensive it is, and why they don't get them themselves (for the most part) from their parents. The idea itself is nice in concept, but I guarantee you it won't work in theory. Now I'm not saying that EVERY kid will wreck them, but I wouldn't be surprised if an end of the school year report comes out with at least 50% of the missing or inoperable. It's also possible that in the next 20 years this will be the norm, but right now I haven't seen much good from high school kids to put my "money" on them not breaking the majority of them. Edited by Polantaris, Jul 29 2011, 05:29 PM.
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| Enrei | Jul 29 2011, 06:42 PM Post #2 |
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Chinese Gold Farmer
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It's good to see schools take jumps towards more technologically friendly environments...but this is incredibly wasteful. I agree that kids will be more prone to trashing these things, playing games on them, and losing them... From my time this summer with my sister's iPads as replacements for a good 'ol PC, I can say they do make great replacements for all of the social aspects of PCs/laptops, but I can't see them being used for essay typing, quiz taking, etc.... |
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| WolfenAmphithere | Sep 18 2011, 10:44 PM Post #3 |
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The Crazy Hat Lady
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Which means 100% disinterest in lectures, so what's the point? |
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