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There are many iPad MDM solutions to that problem. Apple s App Store can be disabled and replaced with a custom one, for example.
Doesn't matter if its technically possible if teachers and administrators are clueless on how to do it.
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The idea is that you're no longer constrained by planning around the use of a shared computer lab space. Instead, any activities that benefit from computer use can be used immediately. You don't have a "pencil and paper" lab that is used the entire school day and scheduled around, and now computers have reached the commodity price point where they don't need to either.
I don't think the vast majority of education gets much value from a computer lab, either.
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Education and a 1:1 program are vastly different usage models. You're not going to be able to take a Rasperry Pi, a monitor keyboard and mouse home with you in your backpack to do your homework on.
You could take home a pi, keyboard, and mouse though. Assuming you have a TV you can plug your pi into.
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No, 6th form is from 16 to 18 years.
Which is almost exactly what high school is in some parts of the US (that is, in places where it is 10-12 grade.) The thing is, while the US tends to have the Elementary/Middle or Junior High/(Senior) High split in most places, the grade levels aren't the same. I've seen (and this may not be exhaustive) the splits with the following grade levels: 1-5/6-8/9-12 1-6/7-8/9-12 1-6/7-9/10-12
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The 12.9-inch iPad Pro (32GB, Wifi only) is selling for $1,049 CAD. Who are they kidding?
32 GB storage on a 1000+$ device is mind boggling. The cloud storage situation is even worse. Every Pro device (MBP or iPadP) should come with atleast 100GB cloud storage IMO.
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You could take home a pi, keyboard, and mouse though. Assuming you have a TV you can plug your pi into.
That sounds like a terrible model and I'm glad you don't have children
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To be honest though, I think these environments make new programmers go through the trouble of learning a platform which they can never ship a real application in; except maybe Cloud9. Scratch has been around for about 15 years now, and 12 years in a workable state. And while it seems superficially to be helpful (none of that fussy text editing!), I have never met a programmer who got their start in Scratch.
I think what you're saying is true in a sense but misses the point of this part of their education. I think the idea is less about making grade school students into career-ready programmers and more to expose them to programming concepts in general. They're increasingly useful in a wide variety of fields, even if you don't end up being a programmer or touch code again.
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That sounds like a terrible model and I'm glad you don't have children
Personal attacks tacked onto generic dismissals are not a thing we need more of on Hacker News, so please leave these ones unposted.
Maybe you can pick up some docker tips.
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> Chromebooks are rubbish too, so I don't really see the move to them as a positive either. What to your mind would not be rubbish? I'm a Microsoft employee, so I have a vested interest in Windows devices being the dominant choice for schools, but I don't see anything realistic students at the high school or below level couldn't do on Chromebooks. Also, where do you live/teach? "Year 7" is not high school in the US.…
> 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…