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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Hi Tim<BR>
Interesting Blog entry (laughed when I saw the date at the bottom!)<BR>
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It is my understanding that if you put a solidstate drive in a “laptop” the boot time is very fast BUT the wake up from sleep is <B>almost </B>instantaneous. There are a couple of videos online looking at the new macbook air which has a solid state drive. Perhaps look at those? I am hanging for the ipad 2 (just the thought of spending my earnings helped with marking exams last year)<BR>
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On 1/03/11 3:35 PM, "Tim Kitchen" <<a href="tkitchen@strathcona.vic.edu.au">tkitchen@strathcona.vic.edu.au</a>> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>It has been interesting reading the discussion on this topic. I think Roland makes a good point when he says the iPad is not a laptop replacement. It's also not a shared device, not suited to a class set, however I now can't imaging teaching or learning without one.<BR>
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I've just blogged the following on the topic ...<BR>
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<a href="http://timkitchen.net/ipads/">http://timkitchen.net/ipads/</a><BR>
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On 26/02/2011, at 4:42 PM, Roland Gesthuizen wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Having jumped from an iPad to a netbook school .. the things that the iPad does well (eBook, battery life, robust etc etc.) it does blindingly better than a netbook. During a recent meeting, I had a word document for discussion open on both my laptop and iPad (shared by DropBox of course) .. you can guess what I handed around during the meeting to reinforce a point about something that I wanted us to delibrate on. I see the same happening when groups of kids are working on iPads (oddly enough, it is easier to see what they are doing and keep them on task as the tablets sit flatter on the desk).<BR>
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I think we need to stop thinking that the way we prefer to work with our laptops as educators will directly map onto how students should use and work with tablet devices. Yes, they are not laptops .. but then again, laptops don't fit as well into the cooperative learning spaces that we are building for students.<BR>
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This is the clincher and increasingly convinces me that when it comes to 1:1 computing, tablet computers are the way to go. All that a classroom perhaps needs then is access to a lab or couple of desktops for specialist tools and some legacy applications.<BR>
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Sadly, Flash is dying and not because of Apple. Increasingly HTML5 is taking over, just a matter of time.<BR>
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You raise a very good point about the future of huge school IT networks and the need for continuous connectivity beyond a school LAN. I do have a concern, how do we disassemble and redirect the energy we have tied up in this empire of wire?<BR>
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Regards Roland<BR>
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On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Paul Chandler <<a href="paul.chandler@une.edu.au">paul.chandler@une.edu.au</a>> wrote:<BR>
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I think to truly drive the pedagogical change you can envisage these devices creating, they need to be the 3G version and GPS enabled - many schools are hamstringing any developments by locking them to their wireless infrastructure (due to cost).<BR>
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I often find myself wondering what the difference would really be if a school provided each student with a netbook, 3G modem and some credit and did away with the large proportion of their LAN infrastructure. I rather suspect that the cost differential wouldn't be very much.<BR>
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