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Control: I'm talking about control in the classroom. Being able to stop a kid from browsing the Internet while you are giving a lecture. Power: If you think a

Control: I'm talking about control in the classroom. Being able to stop a kid from browsing the Internet while you are giving a lecture. Power: If you think an iPad will last all day while constantly in use you haven't tried it. In my test it ran for 6 hours and change which isn't enough to get a kid through a whole day of classes plus make it through the ride home. Kids Content: Parental Control won't survive a hard reset and kids aren't stupid. Finally there are plenty of ways tablets can be used in the classroom but that wasn't the premise of the article being discussed. The premise of the article being discussed was giving each kid a laptop in place of textbooks

glhaynes 16y ago
Are any of those dealbreakers though? There are all sorts of non-tech things that go on in the classroom and can't be controlled other than by the "old fashioned" method of the teacher looking around. I'd be really surprised if a student ever needed to have their tablet on for six full hours out of the day - my kids are only in school for 7 hours total, and if you take out lunch, PE, recess, bathroom breaks, and time without textbooks open, I'd guess they'd only need about 3-4 hours max (they certainly don't have to use it during the ride home). And is the parental control situation any different with iPad than with any other computer? Anyway, I'm not saying that iPads are necessarily right to replace textbooks (maybe, maybe not - I'd be way more excited about using them in school in other ways besides), but these reasons don't seem like serious problems to me.