Apple’s Devices Lose Luster in American Classrooms

Post by simonh » Fri, Mar 03, 2017, 8:17 AM UTC

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DaiPlusPlus wrote: post #9

I remember the huge push when the iPad came out and all the talk about how it would replace textbooks and exercise books. It could only be because school administrators were won-over by the engaging user-experience - completely overlooking practicalities - back in 2010 even into 2014 iOS lacked decent enterprise-management tools that would enable staff to lock devices down as they're obvious distraction devices - thi…

As a middle-school student in the early 2000s, I helped part-time with IT at a Mac-only school. Macintoshes, iMacs, eMacs. People were less familiar with Macs than PCs, but from an IT perspective, it was heaven. There were only a few models, they were reliable, and everything "just worked" together. The most common snag was attempting to get floppies to work with people's PCs from home. Sad to see the Apple desktops…

Post by xiaoma » Fri, Mar 03, 2017, 8:19 AM UTC

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> Also, where do you live/teach? "Year 7" I'm in Australia. Nationally we are transitioning to a R-6 = Primary School, 7-12 = High School model. My school is a little unorthodox. We're a private school with a 6-12 shared campus which is why I had experience teaching younger students even though I am HS trained. > What to your mind would not be rubbish? Either Mac or PC is fine in my books. Anything that allows them t…

> install a hex editor > I don't think that's possible on a Chromebook. First google result for "web hex editor": https://hexed.it/ Took me 10 seconds to open, including googling for it.

Post by fragmede » Fri, Mar 03, 2017, 8:21 AM UTC

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I have never used chromeOS, does it have a terminal or is there some sort of ssh as a service?

It has a built in terminal called crosh, which might have an SSH client built in (I'm not sure). What most people do is download a chrome extension like Secure Shell[1] that lets you ssh from a tab. [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/secure-shell/pnhec...

    crosh> ssh
    The 'ssh' command has been removed.  Please install the official SSH extension:
  
  https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pnhechapfaindjhompbnflcldabbghjo
    crosh>

Post by tmd83 » Fri, Mar 03, 2017, 8:22 AM UTC

rayalez wrote: post #115

ux-app wrote: post #13

I'm a HS teacher. I was so happy when my school finally phased out iPads as the designated device for our year 7 students. It's such a rubbish device for content creation. The touchscreen is a POS for anything other than web browsing and casual games. Teaching coding, image manipulation, file manipulation was utterly painful or impossible. Typing on them is beyond painful and of the hundreds of students I taught, few…

You're probably right about the schools, but I want to disagree with you about content creation in general. I'm using my iPad for painting, writing, video creation every day. It is extremely useful and convenient for my purposes. It has a specific niche, and might not be for everyone, but I very often prefer it for specific tasks. At this point, writing(in Editorial) for me is pretty much as convenient as writing on…

Post by bitmapbrother » Fri, Mar 03, 2017, 8:24 AM UTC

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Please describe your PURE Chromebook setup to take the Udacity Web Development Course. Also is there a PURE Chromebook (or Chromebook+Android apps) setup to take an Udacity Android course?

Apparently ChromeOS devices are so useful that everyone has to force developer mode with Crouton to make use of them. Never got the point of a browser based OS.