[Offtopic] Ipads

[Andrew Shortell]

Hi Tim
Interesting Blog entry (laughed when I saw the date at the bottom!)

It is my understanding that if you put a solidstate drive in a ³laptop² the
boot time is very fast  BUT the wake up from sleep is almost 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)

Cheers

Andrew
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On 1/03/11 3:35 PM, "Tim Kitchen" <tkitchen at strathcona.vic.edu.au> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> I've just blogged the following on the topic ...
> 
> http://timkitchen.net/ipads/
> 
> Ta
> 
> Tim Kitchen
> Strathcona BGGS
> 
> On 26/02/2011, at 4:42 PM, Roland Gesthuizen wrote:
> 
>> 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).
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> Sadly, Flash is dying and not because of Apple. Increasingly HTML5 is taking
>> over, just a matter of time.
>> 
>> 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?
>> 
>> Regards Roland
>> 
>> On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Paul Chandler <paul.chandler at une.edu.au>
>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 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).
>>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 

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