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Meanwhile, here's another 'iPads in the classroom' story from last week, focussing on how fast the kids destroy them: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2

• objclxt 14y ago
  ...it's a terribly misleading story (which doesn't come as a surprise to me, it's the Daily Mail after all), because it conveniently omits breakage rates of one-to-one laptop deployments. It may not come as a surprise to many people to learn that laptops break almost as often as tablets when deployed one-on-one in schools. A quick Google led me to one study from 2004 in Maine, where over an 18 month period 50% of laptops required repair, and 35% of students experienced laptops breaking down or being accidentally damaged[1]. The main difference is that a higher percentage of tablets require total replacement, which is somewhat understandable as tablets (be they Android or iOS) are far less user serviceable. [1]: http://maine.gov/mlti/articles/research/PCHSLaptopsFinal.pdf http://maine.gov/mlti/articles/research/PCHSLaptopsFinal.pdf
  • revelation 14y ago
    I don't understand. There are schools (the majority of them!) that do neither tablet nor laptop "1-to-1 deployments", for maybe this very reason.
• nicholassmith 14y ago
  It did also say that the cases they were using weren't great, and when swapped out they were much less prone to breakages. Plus kids are kids, things are going to get broken, that's why the devices were insured.