i am 4 and i drink starbucks - School district to give all it's kindergarteners iPads - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Nightsure;32345824]Why are people so crazy over iPads?[/QUOTE] Because it's an Apple product

My school got iPad2's aswell, then again I'm in Year 7 and not 4 years old. I don't think it's going to end well, sometimes the teachers think too well of the kids.

I know of several several young children in that age range, all of them having some sort of mental retardation, and their parents bought them iPads. These kids, for being handicapped, are really learning a lot from it. Their parents are able to download educational and fun games for just a few dollars. And surprisingly, the kids realize that the iPads are not cheap; they are incredibly careful and smart when it comes to using them. They know how to unlock, start apps, listen to their music, when to charge it, and not to drop it. iPads are really useful for educating special needs children.

In my kindergarten class, we had Macintosh Color Classics or something, and you could play Tic Tac Toe, and some game where you fly a helicopter around and collect letters.

[QUOTE=Photo Shop;32345070]How about not at all? I work at a high school that just distributed iPads to all it's students. School has been session for 7 days now and already two have been totaled and four have been jailbroken. Luckily we can detect this and punish the students, but let me tell you now, kids of any grade just don't give a shit. The past five years we've supplied MacBooks to the students and now only a couple hundred hundred have survived. If you take a look at our equipment you'll see deep scratches, cracked plastic cases, severe discoloration and burn marks. Noone gives a shit because it's "not theirs". Kinda like throwing a party in someone else's house. This is a pathetic waste of money, as the facility I work in doesn't appear to be repaired since the 70s. There is mold, the wood paneling is falling off, the school needs a new paint job badly, and the roof leaks everywhere. The room where we kept some spare printers sprung a leak over night due to old water pipes and ruined all the equipment. The incompetence of the school district administration is unmatched.[/QUOTE] When you gave it all out, were the students to keep it after? Or give it back Here, we get to keep it after Year 9, and people (suprisingly) care about their iPads (not in a bad way)

I think a DS would be a better choice if Nintendo didn't ban flashcart usage. You'd be spending $300 less per unit and it most likely won't break as easily. There are multiple free SDKs for it too. The article doesn't state any proper reasons why they need iPads though.

[QUOTE=semite;32344754]Spending more on education won't magically improve the quality thereof. We already spend more per student than any other country. Look at Detroit for fuck's sake, they spend more than the national average...[/QUOTE] Washington DC spends the most money per-student in the entire country, and it has the overall lowest scoring students in the country. [editline]17th September 2011[/editline] You simply can't throw money at schools and expect the quality of education to increase.

wow this is stupid as fuck.

if you're gonna get every student a computer at least get them a 250$ netbook instead of a 500$ tablet half of them are going to end up broken by the end of the year anyway

What has society become?

[QUOTE=ChestyMcGee;32344217]surely they could get some other decent tablet PC for like half the price? not that i think they should have tablet PCs at all then again the schoolboard is probably ran by people with an average age of 55 so they won't know of any technology that doesn't have a picture of a fruit on it[/QUOTE] iPads are easy as hell to use, and made for retarded people. Probably one of the reasons they picked them.

[QUOTE=343N;32346257]When you gave it all out, were the students to keep it after? Or give it back Here, we get to keep it after Year 9, and people (suprisingly) care about their iPads (not in a bad way)[/QUOTE] The students must give the items back for summer vacation, and when they graduate from high school they must turn their items in for the next generation of students.

The only reason for not using ipads would be to have them learn to read and write first. I don't think it will conflict with that though. If done correctly even the youngest kid won't trash his ipad.

heh, and my school district is pretty strapped on cash. they had to fire a few teachers, and there is 35 students in any given classroom

[QUOTE=coolmzn222;32344202]Um, what the fuck did I just read?[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=lavacano;32344128]Source: [url]http://www.necn.com/09/12/11/Kindergarteners-get-iPads-for-school/landing_scitech.html?blockID=563064&feedID=4213[/url] "'An Auburn, ME school district spent more than $200,000 to outfit every one of its 250 kindergartners with [iPads], along with sturdy cases to protect them. School officials say they are the first public school district in the country to give every kindergartner an iPad. Mrs. McCarthy says the tools give her 19 students more immediate feedback and individual attention than she ever could.' Will this improve low test scores, or be another case where spending more money does not produce a better educational outcome?"[/QUOTE] this

This is a really good idea from an infinite money stand point. With an iPad you can automatically gather information on who needs the most help in class and introduce young children to what is most likely the future of consumer computing (if all you do is browse the web there isn't much point in having a desktop). Tablets are a really great way to learn how to use computers since their interface is so intuitive, especially for very young people. It's pretty retarded back in the real world where some school districts won't be able to afford proper text books and whatnot.

This kind of reminds me of my school. Last year, my school's principle, who just started our freshman year, announced to us all that our school would be giving a laptop to every student, fitting the entire school with WiFi, putting 4 large screen TVs in the cafeteria, and putting a large TV and better computers in every classroom. We have one set of 15-year old shitty books for the Freshman ANS Senor English classes, not enough tools in the Drafting class, all the English and Social Studies teachers have to buy anything not textbooks, even if directly related to class (for example, my Modern Novel class, where we, y'know, read modern novels...the 32 copies of each book we read were paid out of pocket by my teacher [who is already poor as shit anyhow]). And we had it really fucking good compared to the city schools nearby. Why are there schools getting iPads for kindergartners, when some schools don't even have enough books?

They should just buy cheap Chinese Ipad clones. It would probably save them a bunch of cash.

[QUOTE=coolmzn222;32344568]Wow, they get Ipads while my school has outdated textbooks, totally fair.[/QUOTE] My school has 3 classes, (Math, Social, Science), which uses laptops only. And they aren't macbooks, but regular windows 7 laptops. I don't think giving kindergardners tablets will end well.

iPads are pretty durable by the way. Maybe if you stab the glass with a pen it would break but they're really quite tough. It's not likely a small child could break one unless they spilt something on it.

I think it would be better to give students some sort of technology, laptops of pads at around age 8, at least they would be able to treat the hardware a little better.

[QUOTE=JustGman;32347180]They should just buy cheap Chinese Ipad clones. It would probably save them a bunch of cash.[/QUOTE] There would be no support... My school thrives on apple replacement parts due to the deal we had.

I've worked in a nursing home where the nurse staff had tablet PC's. It only lasted a few months before they were all completely destroyed. IE; they used actual pens and pencils on the screen instead of the stylus it came with. If fully grown professionals can't handle these, how do you think kindergartners who eat crayons are going to handle them?

They know if they play with it they will bug there parents to buy it. Its a great way to indoctrinate kids to apple.

My high school didn't even buy enough paper to make it through the year

they are doing the same thing here in my town but its IPad's for grade 7's and 8's and laptops for the grade 9's...

[QUOTE=GunFox;32344287] I don't know why you are immediately writing it off.[/QUOTE] [quote] iPads [/quote]

[QUOTE=Shrapnel :3;32347310]iPads are pretty durable by the way. Maybe if you stab the glass with a pen it would break but they're really quite tough. It's not likely a small child could break one unless they spilt something on it.[/QUOTE]They are like 5-6 years old. If it can be broken, they WILL find a way to break it.

My school is stuck using 10 year old textbooks and computers made from the stone age, and this school has enough money to give Kindergartners iPads.

[QUOTE=JustGman;32347180]They should just buy cheap Chinese Ipad clones. It would probably save them a bunch of cash.[/QUOTE] Lead iPads are bad though.