I cannot use touchscreen keyboards. Normal keyboards I can top around 70 WPM. Touchscreen ones? Not even 20. (Girl at 6:53)
It can't be completely Apple, especially not I-pads. The scene in the college lecture hall, every single student (at 1:10) that has a laptop has an Apple one, let's go realistic. There's no happenstance that will produce that, nor close to that. We cannot pin our print to digital textbook switch onto Apple.
School kids would mess around too much on ipads.
There needs to be a way to lock the ipad to doing just school tasks during school hour, in a way that somehow can't be bypassed.
[QUOTE=Smeetin;34309249]That scene of the girl typing at like 100 wpm on it is utter bullshit. Her notes probably come like "THogde rosselfvent wgas kjhtpe prseident fo het Unteid dStaes."[/QUOTE]
Our school uses iPads. Most kids have adopted to type pretty fast now, but there is also that handy feature autocorrect to help out.
[editline]20th January 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=Roll_Program;34313651]School kids would mess around too much on ipads.
There needs to be a way to lock the ipad to doing just school tasks during school hour, in a way that somehow can't be bypassed.[/QUOTE]
you have no clue. there are kids who spend all class playing minecraft.
[editline]20th January 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=CanadianBill;34313344]I cannot use touchscreen keyboards. Normal keyboards I can top around 70 WPM. Touchscreen ones? Not even 20. (Girl at 6:53)
It can't be completely Apple, especially not I-pads. The scene in the college lecture hall, every single student (at 1:10) that has a laptop has an Apple one, let's go realistic. There's no happenstance that will produce that, nor close to that. We cannot pin our print to digital textbook switch onto Apple.[/QUOTE]
A lot of students at my school use bluetooth keyboards which are pretty handy
Note: I would prefer having Android tablets any day. iPad seems to work pretty well though.
Our school just purchased laptops for every student this fall, so we took a schoolwide poll AFTER they were purchased.
12 students out of the entire school said "Sure lets keep the laptops."
Great success
Yeh, I'll stick with my android.
I can't watch this propaganda, stopped as soon as a full class opened up brand-new macbooks
[QUOTE=Lolkork;34305005]What's that good for?[/QUOTE]
Absolutely [i]nothing[/i]
My math class has had one of the labs since October and we've used it twice. No other class has asked for it.
[QUOTE=Jackald;34309415]" I teach because when you learn you become a better person, always "
I'm going to stop you right there, apple:
A few things that don't necessarily make you a better person if you learn them:
> Your own significance in the universe
> How to make bombs
> That you're adopted
> How many people there are with the name "Andrew"
> What 'loli' is.
> Reasons to commit suicide
> What it feels like to know how to kill a man.[/QUOTE]
I'm talking to my friend Andrew right now :<
1:09 - I don't want to live on this planet anymore :(
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"...it's all organised for you so you don't even have to think..." Yep it's the apple policy we all know and love.
I mean this is a great idea, but Its not really affordable for the average person.
[QUOTE=booster;34312989]"3 or 4 in a bag is a lot of weight"
um no.[/QUOTE]
[img]http://d2o6nd3dubbyr6.cloudfront.net/media/images/110509_bookstack001_rr_jpg_800x1000_q100.jpg[/img]
um yes
[editline]21st January 2012[/editline]
Oh god I just saw "Texas Science"
Who knows whats in that book...
Ipads are actually pretty decent if you know what you're using it for.
[QUOTE=Sottalytober;34319123]Ipads are actually pretty decent if you know what you're using it for.[/QUOTE]
I use my one for streaming movies and remote desktop as well as email and facebook.
[QUOTE=Zeb Brown;34319141]I use my one for streaming movies and remote desktop as well as email and facebook.[/QUOTE]
Watching Netflix, reading, using it for sites (school related or not), aswell as a large selection of apps to dick around with it make it a good tool. Does it have the power of a laptop? No, but it's a good substitute.
oh no how will my skinny hipster arms hold all these books?
I've been using my iPad for notes in class now rather than the only school use was typing essays and researching online, but I can take notes so much faster now that are organized and all that shit without me having to buy more paper and pens. It also came in handy when my friend asked for notes from a day he missed and I just sent them to him in his email instead of having to photocopy a page and give it to him the next day. Of course, you can do this with any tablet or laptop, but I prefer doing those things on an iPad. I was trying out a couple of those iPad textbooks and they're a hell of a lot more interesting than big physical textbooks.
My school is talking about getting them, which is better than just saying no altogether. Sure, the cost of getting them will be a tad high, but they're going to last for years, and once you buy the $14 textbook, all future updates are free.
Sheeple
until you go to uni you dont really have a clue how fucking huge the textbooks are. i have to carry around 2 a day and i have 6 modules. the names alone suggest how chunky they are: Fluid mechanics, static/dynamic systems, engineering systems, design elements, circuit analysis, and advanced eng-mathmatics. my left shoulder has its own set of fucking biceps from carrying them around...
Im going to download them as e-books next year, stick them all on my laptop, but it would be handy having them on a kindle-like device with e-ink.
Instead of hating on Apple, I'm going to realize that this is a good idea because carrying around one iPad is better than a bunch of thick textbooks.
[QUOTE=JCDentonUNATCO;34319097][img]http://d2o6nd3dubbyr6.cloudfront.net/media/images/110509_bookstack001_rr_jpg_800x1000_q100.jpg[/img]
um yes
[editline]21st January 2012[/editline]
Oh god I just saw "Texas Science"
Who knows whats in that book...[/QUOTE]
That has to be highschool... Freshman year at that. Highschool is worse than college when it comes to weight on your back, especially if your school was over crowded.
In mine you had all the classes all around the school, as well as everyone's lockers. And there was ONE intersection of the hallways that took 3 minutes to get through, and you had 4 minutes to get to your next class. Why go from one room, through that intersection to your locker, and back another way to class. You could prep a class or two ahead but that's still 3 books on your back. It was easier to just put all your books in your ruck and keep the $2 they charge you for a locker to buy yourself a fucking lunch
My bag consistently weighed in at about 40lbs all 4 years of highschool
[QUOTE=Meller Yeller;34319653]Instead of hating on Apple, I'm going to realize that this is a good idea because carrying around one iPad is better than a bunch of thick textbooks.[/QUOTE]
They say themselves that textbooks cost inbetween 50-100 dollars, and yet a single brand new ipad costs from 500-1000, along with the software to enable you to use textbooks. It's a complete waste of money, students have survived the past century using textbooks without problems, and the only reason they're doing this is to promote their products more.
[editline]21st January 2012[/editline]
Besides, the heavy backpacks keep the kids from getting fat
[QUOTE=Meller Yeller;34319653]Instead of hating on Apple, I'm going to realize that this is a good idea because carrying around one iPad is better than a bunch of thick textbooks.[/QUOTE]
Only I never said anything about apple. Just how much the student actually has to pay. Cheers
[editline]21st January 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=JCDentonUNATCO;34319097]
Oh god I just saw "Texas Science"
Who knows whats in that book...[/QUOTE]
...Texas Science
[QUOTE=Lol-Nade;34319986]They say themselves that textbooks cost inbetween 50-100 dollars, and yet a single brand new ipad costs from 500-1000, along with the software to enable you to use textbooks. It's a complete waste of money, students have survived the past century using textbooks without problems, and the only reason they're doing this is to promote their products more.
[editline]21st January 2012[/editline]
Besides, the heavy backpacks keep the kids from getting fat[/QUOTE]
What if the person already has an iPad or something similar like a lot of people do?
Having all your textbooks stored in one small, mobile device seems like the something that would catch on and be really useful to me.
I liked the look of how you can create the textbooks. A device that was like this but cheaper, and allowed access to a few applications like a browser, calculator, an app like the one in the video and a quiz app would be pretty nice. You could have the quiz app automatically mark the answers to simpler questions and you'd have your results back in an instant, as well as statistics like average in class and the teacher wouldn't have to spend ages marking the same questions for each student. The calculator and web application could be locked and unlocked from an admin device to prevent cheating.
This move is pretty good if you already have an iPad, but if you don't there isn't much point. Of course it comes down to how many textbooks are written for the platform. And it's a bitch that it's not open to other operating systems. Hell, there isn't even an iBook reader for Mac or PC. What if you want to open up a textbook while you're working on your desktop computer?
As I'm an architecture student, we need to make as much (if not more) visual notes as we do text notes, I've yet to find a good iPad app to switch quickly between drawing and writing text for annotation. There are literally no laptops/tablets out when we're taking notes in lectures.
if you would be able to get the textbooks at a heavily discounted price (which they won't) this would be great
too bad the textbooks would still be expensive as fuck
As much as you guys might hate Apple, their products do 'revolutionise' (as much as I hate that word) the market. Before the iPad, you'd be quite hard-pressed to find a decent tablet, now they're fucking everywhere. By doing this Apple are helping lead the industry in to the future and quite soon we may never have to purchase physical copies of textbooks ever again.
Eddy Cue kinda sounds like Gabe Newell
[QUOTE=cccritical;34316251]I can't watch this propaganda, stopped as soon as a full class opened up brand-new macbooks[/QUOTE]
You gotta think differently man.
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