03-03-2017, 11:28 PM
Our district has ipads for each middle school and high school student. I hate them with a passion.
For the middle schools they make sense, but at the high school level (where I am), all but the math teachers have been asking for laptops or chromebooks for several years - that includes students. We are ignored because a single school boardmember is an obnoxious fanboy and won't listen to reason.
Each ipad air2 is in an otter defender case, so the cost is around $450 per student. Students can't reasonably use them for writing anything of consequence, we can't use them for testing, and they are so locked down that video is impossible.
An incredible waste of money
For the middle schools they make sense, but at the high school level (where I am), all but the math teachers have been asking for laptops or chromebooks for several years - that includes students. We are ignored because a single school boardmember is an obnoxious fanboy and won't listen to reason.
Each ipad air2 is in an otter defender case, so the cost is around $450 per student. Students can't reasonably use them for writing anything of consequence, we can't use them for testing, and they are so locked down that video is impossible.
An incredible waste of money