03-09-2016, 03:12 AM
The story is different in my school. I have the one iPad lab in the school. Everyone else went to Chromebooks this year. Most of the students beg to check out one of the iPads when they are trying to get real work done.
Note they are 4+ year old iPad 2's! They much prefer Pages, Numbers, Keynote, and Photos to the equivalent Google apps. They also can type faster on the virtual keyboard of an iPad than on the cheap keyboards of the Chromebooks...and if you need to use the trackpad for anything on a Chromebook, like a painting program - they would rather fail than use a CB.
FWIW, Apple will be upping the game with iPads for education with the release of iOS 9.3, which offers some awesome tools for classroom iPad management. Hope it's not too late!
Note they are 4+ year old iPad 2's! They much prefer Pages, Numbers, Keynote, and Photos to the equivalent Google apps. They also can type faster on the virtual keyboard of an iPad than on the cheap keyboards of the Chromebooks...and if you need to use the trackpad for anything on a Chromebook, like a painting program - they would rather fail than use a CB.
FWIW, Apple will be upping the game with iPads for education with the release of iOS 9.3, which offers some awesome tools for classroom iPad management. Hope it's not too late!