I'm not a teacher, nor involved in education in any way so take what I have to say with a pinch of salt.
A recent analysis over here in California found that it was around 4 times as expensive for a classroom to use iPads and electronic versions of text books as it was to continue using hard copy text books. The costs were measured over a 6 year period to take account of new editions of the text books and the life span of an iPad and I believe the analysis was done for high school level classes. I'd be prepared to accept the extra cost if it was accompanied by a greater than 4-fold improvement in educational quality but there seems to be precious little evidence that the use of iPads produces any increase in educational quality. This is all related to general education classes, not computer science classes. Of course, you can find studies to prove/disprove just about anything you want these days. For those interested, you might want to read the book "Wrong" by David H. Freedman. A fascinating account of why an alarmingly high number of studies carried out by experts come to completely wrong conclusions. Pete On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Bob Earp <rje...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I say that we will see a change in current attitudes as I am encouraged by > Apple's new education support with iBooks2, iBooks Author, and iTunesU. > Just the fact of offering text books at a fraction of their hard copy > price will quickly sway teachers into encouraging downloads, not to mention > keeping the books current and all of the other goodies. And academia using > the tools in iTunesU will put pressure on IT people to deliver an > infrastructure that support such. -- Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
