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With budget constraints I don’t see how the iPad can compete with cheaper alternatives. The only real advantage I see for the iPad over Chromebook in the educa
by sykh 9y ago
With budget constraints I don’t see how the iPad can compete with cheaper alternatives. The only real advantage I see for the iPad over Chromebook in the education market is that one can digitally markup documents on the iPad and take handwritten notes on it.
I use an iPad Pro to grade math homework for my online students. I wish they all had iPad Pros (or Surface Pros) but I can’t force them to buy an iPad for one class. It would be nice if the college required their usage but there aren’t enough compelling reasons to do so at this time. I’m skeptical that there will be enough after Tuesday’s event.
- blakesterz 9y agoWould you choose ipads over chromebooks for them?
- sykh 9y agoI would but mostly because of the pen support. Apparently Chromebooks can support pens so I don’t have a preference. The cost factor makes me think Chromebooks are a better fit for the education market.
- wffurr 9y agoYou can do digital pen markup on any number of stylus equipped Chromebooks using any of the excellent Android or Chrome apps for note taking and markup. Check out Keep, Squid, Google Classroom for Android, MyScript. There's even a handwiring mode on the soft keyboard that comes up if you flip them around to tablet mode. The feature is not just on the Pixel book. It's also in the $400 Samsung Chromebook Plus or Asus Chromebook Flip.
- sykh 9y agoI did not know this. Thank you for pointing this out. When my current iPad Pro dies I’ll look into a Chromebook option. I had considered the Surface Pro but I hate the Windows operating system.
- canuckintime 9y ago> The only real advantage I see for the iPad over Chromebook in the education market is that one can digitally markup documents on the iPad and take handwritten notes on it. I use an iPad Pro... The 'regular' iPad (and presumably this cheaper iPad) do not support the Apple Pencil. There are Chromebooks with wacom pen support e.g. Samsung's Chromebook Plus/Pro [1]. Those Chromebooks start at $499. The iPad Pro starts at $649 (+$100 for the Apple Pencil). [1] https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/chromebooks/all-chromebooks/ https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/chromebooks/all-chromeb...
- sykh 9y agoI know only the Pro model of the iPad supports the pencil. I'm assuming - hoping! - these new iPads do as well. I did not know about Chromebooks having pen support. Given this I don’t see how Apple can make a compelling case for the iPad. When the iBooks development software came out I was excited. I create my own materials for my college math courses and I wanted to write a book. But iBooks is only on Apple devices so why would I spend time creating materials for iBook? Apple needs to open up some of their stuff if they want a wider adoption in education.