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<p>Good iPad review that explains why these units are better than netbooks and why kids need these in the hands to take home, not locked up in school labs after hours.
Regards Roland
"The iPad itself is a great device -- I love mine and it's changed the nature of computing on our couch. It is the ultimate in personal computing; it is not, as my wife and I have discovered, very good at being a shareable device"</p><p><strong>Quotes:</strong></p><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #eee; padding-left: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><p><a id="link-annotatedLink" href="http://diigo.com/0ejw1" title="Ewan McIntosh: iPad Learning for All the Wrong Reasons">Ewan McIntosh: iPad Learning for All the Wrong Reasons</a></p><ul><li style="line-height:150%;margin-bottom:.6em;">Interesting iPad review. Good reason why kids need these tablet computers in the hands, not locked up in school labs or libraries.</li></ul><ul><li style="line-height:150%;margin-bottom:.6em;">Crucially, the applications that are really required to revolutionize learning have a) yet to be built, b) will be designed by professional learning companies, who will c) charge healthy sums for them. Whose iTunes account on the student iPads will pay for this? <ul></ul></li>
<li style="line-height:150%;margin-bottom:.6em;">Principals, teachers making classroom observations, and students out doing fieldwork may find them hitting a spot that laptops (with their slow start-up times) and smartphones (whose screens are a little too small to permit long-form typing or writing) fail to. <ul></ul></li>
<li style="line-height:150%;margin-bottom:.6em;">The iPad is not any old computing device -- it's a personal computing device. <ul></ul></li>
<li style="line-height:150%;margin-bottom:.6em;">You cannot get the most out of an iPad without letting the student own it, and harness their personal accounts, tastes and media for some creative learning. <ul></ul></li></ul></blockquote>
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