05-24-2016, 04:00 AM
I have used a lab of 30 iPads in my classes for 4.5 years now. There's also a lab of older MacBooks. The new rollout this year was Chromebooks for everybody.
Out of the students I see daily, about 98% of them prefer to do work on iPads and NOT on the Chromebooks. Both Pages and Keynote are far superior to the Google app equivalents. Some of them choose to use Google apps on the iPad because they prefer the iPad keyboard.
Thats right, I said it. People under the age of 20 something have absolutely no problem ripping out content on the iPad. Its only most adults that have this preconceived idea that they just cannot do work without a real keyboard.
Sadly...textbook manufacturers and standardized testing creators are pushing the drive toward Chromebooks.
Durability? I had my first broken iPad this year after 4.5 years of use. Our Chromebooks? 14 killed in the first year of rollout, not counting those that just stopped working.
Out of the students I see daily, about 98% of them prefer to do work on iPads and NOT on the Chromebooks. Both Pages and Keynote are far superior to the Google app equivalents. Some of them choose to use Google apps on the iPad because they prefer the iPad keyboard.
Thats right, I said it. People under the age of 20 something have absolutely no problem ripping out content on the iPad. Its only most adults that have this preconceived idea that they just cannot do work without a real keyboard.
Sadly...textbook manufacturers and standardized testing creators are pushing the drive toward Chromebooks.
Durability? I had my first broken iPad this year after 4.5 years of use. Our Chromebooks? 14 killed in the first year of rollout, not counting those that just stopped working.