School spends £500,000 for 1,200 iPad2, after 1 year half are broken
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...LF-broken.html
Ah, the quality of App£e products. That's £400 each. You could have bought some nice laptops or netbooks for that and they would still be working. You could have bought 2 netbooks for each student and they would still be working. |
The more snobbish readers (e.g. me) will say "Essex? What do you expect!" When I was at the Inner London Education Authority, school computers were large steel boxes that were too rugged to break and too big to steal!
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I feel sure that the quality of the product has little to do with this number. More likely the kids being animals who can't be trusted with breakable items. I would assume the netbooks would have suffered equally or more. Then you'd have to have re-trained the entire school hierarchy on how to use a pc.
The second issue is why kids need such a product? Are books somehow faulty? |
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Agree. I've seen first-hand "computers in every classroom" and it's a technology train-wreck. Kids sitting in front of the computers that aren't broken, learning that life consists of multiple-choice tests in which one of the four answers in front of you is correct: just guess which one. (You can't "lose" even if you're wrong, because your teacher will "fix" your answers for you, to keep her job. "No dumbf:eek:k left behind..."
If you didn't buy insurance on half-a-million pounds' worth of equipment, knowing that school kids will be just as wretched and reckless as you were, then you simply have no brain-power anyway. |
I don't want to be antiquated, but i don't understand why kids need a ipad at school.
One thing is if a school buy PC to learn use them, but ipad? For kids, need should be know the open source world. Then they will choose with own mind. |
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