Post: Do you think Tablets should replace Textbooks for K-12 Grade Schools?
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02-27-2017, 02:40 AM
#1
Hydrogen
Super Mod
Good way is that, it would be more fascinating, and being a better learning experience for them. They wouldn't get bored, but some older kids would take it for granted using it for their own fun ways. We have laptops at our school, so eh I don't know.
What do you guys think?
03-06-2017, 09:47 PM
#20
Oneup
Guest
Originally posted by Madison
Of course a tree can be replanted, but it also takes time for those trees to reach maturity again and someone has to ensure that for every tree that is felled at least another 2 replace it. It does somewhat matter where too, but only to the extent that tearing up trees and not replacing them can make areas more susceptible to flooding or landslides if the area is on an incline.
It's still renewable. I don't know how to drive it into your head that you can't replace something like gold or copper once it is used up.
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03-06-2017, 10:22 PM
#21
Geo
Don't Believe The Title
My school here in the UK whilst I was there did this, bought 1000 students iPad 2's (newest at the time) one of the first schools in Europe.... And it was a shit show at first. Because it wasn't well planned. Ideally if you have a contract for the students which requires them to use a pre-allocated case to avoid heavy damage and have multiple profiles within settings to block anything that wasn't educational.
At first we had none of this, no case was required and no school profile was on the iPads, this lead to many breaking multiple iPads and because there was no clause to say if you broke it its your problem, the school just gave them another one. One of my friends went through 4 iPads in half a year. There was also no monitoring of the iPads, so all they were used for was mobile gaming in lessons. It wasn't until the school found out more than 20 of them in 1 year group were jailbroken before they started taking action.
Even then it took 3 years to get them in a suitable use but I would say, with the profiles in place, monitoring, and a proper case, they can be very useful. It just needs to be planned before being implemented.
At first we had none of this, no case was required and no school profile was on the iPads, this lead to many breaking multiple iPads and because there was no clause to say if you broke it its your problem, the school just gave them another one. One of my friends went through 4 iPads in half a year. There was also no monitoring of the iPads, so all they were used for was mobile gaming in lessons. It wasn't until the school found out more than 20 of them in 1 year group were jailbroken before they started taking action.
Even then it took 3 years to get them in a suitable use but I would say, with the profiles in place, monitoring, and a proper case, they can be very useful. It just needs to be planned before being implemented.
03-07-2017, 01:38 AM
#22
Vie
Bounty hunter
Originally posted by Oneup
Nice made up number and devices that come from a school are generally locked down. Goodluck having fun with that.
I would say for the most part they are locked down. I also meant this for mostly the younger kids, I should've mentioned that. However, I know teachers that have had multiple iPads stolen and I know how often little kids drop things as I have 3 younger brothers.
03-07-2017, 06:33 PM
#23
Madison Taylor
Anime Nazi
Originally posted by Oneup
Originally posted by Toke
its still renewable, you cant just make gold and other precious metals used in circuit boards
Yeah my bad, if you couldn't tell already we were at crossed paths from the beginning as I was talking about just the sustainability of a site,I wasn't trying to argue that the world will one day use up all it's supply of trees.
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