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A low cost pencil, paper, and a book is all you really need.
Yea? Are they going to teach programming with pencil and paper?
With budget constraints I don’t see how the iPad can compete with cheaper alternatives. The only real advantage I see for the iPad over Chromebook in the education market is that one can digitally markup documents on the iPad and take handwritten notes on it. I use an iPad Pro to grade math homework for my online students. I wish they all had iPad Pros (or Surface Pros) but I can’t force them to buy an iPad for one c…
You can do digital pen markup on any number of stylus equipped Chromebooks using any of the excellent Android or Chrome apps for note taking and markup. Check out Keep, Squid, Google Classroom for Android, MyScript. There's even a handwiring mode on the soft keyboard that comes up if you flip them around to tablet mode. The feature is not just on the Pixel book. It's also in the $400 Samsung Chromebook Plus or Asus C…
A low cost pencil, paper, and a book is all you really need.
Yea? Are they going to teach programming with pencil and paper?
Even if you get a physical keyboard, are there any mature apps for writing and executing code on the device?
Seems to be a lot of Chromebook comments. Has anyone actually seen one used in the real world? I contract at a bunch of different places and I've never seen anyone use one in a business setting. I'm not sure just learning how to use an iPad is better but I definitely see those being used.
The closest I’ve come to a Chromebook is when Google offered our company one if we evaluated GCP.
My kids have now had both iPads and Chromebooks, and the Chromebooks were obvious winners in every single way. The teachers and kids both like them, they're clearly better for actual school work and learning, everything is just better. It's just a nice bonus that they're way cheaper.
But what about using them offline?
A low cost pencil, paper, and a book is all you really need.
What is Tim Cook's vision for education? Nobody fucking knows. One year Apple is trying to sell iPads claiming it's "whole new kind of computer" then a few months later they are wondering "what's a computer". Without a compelling vision the iPad will continue to flounder.
p.s. I want a 7.9" iPad Pro
[1] there is no open source .txt equivalent for hand written notes. We'll need one if OneNote/Apple Notes ever takes off
I will never understand why they don't just rebrand the Macbook Air as just the Macbook... The new Macbooks look ridiculous to me. They look more like something that could be called the Macbook Air instead. They should swap the names. And if they did that and THEN got rid of the Macbook Airs (currently the Macbooks) I would not be bothered by that. I think Macbooks are hideus compared to how nice they used to look be…
The current Air is larger for no particular reason and has a lower res display, so it's obviously the budget version.
