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The kind of base-model iPad that schools buy costs about $300 with education pricing and volume discounts. If you assume they last two years and there are 15 st
by csande17 4y ago
The kind of base-model iPad that schools buy costs about $300 with education pricing and volume discounts. If you assume they last two years and there are 15 students for each teacher at the school, your school is spending about $2,250 per teacher per year on iPads.
Teachers make about $60k a year, so your school could either give them a 4% raise, or they could buy a bunch of iPads.
The iPads will probably have a bigger short-term impact, even if they're a bad long-term choice. At the very least, they'll look nicer to voters.
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- _hcuq 4y agoNegative impact in my experience. My kids were given ipads at school. Big downtrend in education quality ensued. Chaos really. It’s all a hand wavey “tech is good” without doing any research, experimentation or preparation. https://remakelearning.org/blog/2011/11/30/a-silicon-valley-school-thats-tech-free-by-choice/ https://remakelearning.org/blog/2011/11/30/a-silicon-valley-...