There’s a lot more grants for them now. I live in the poorest county in my state and our poorest school has a bunch of carts full of iPads. Of course I’m sure that’s not the case for every state but most of the schools in my county are 1 to 1
Same. Had one teacher who got off on confiscating phones. Also he taught us logarithms so we could learn log tables instead of use calculators. Real Luddite. Dude was also a pervert and coached the girl’s track team. And an awful teacher. My god this man should’ve been in a jail not a school
Lol every school has at least one of each of those.
That was the only thing t9 eas great for, sending msgs covertly.
We had a guy like that at mine, he was one of the computer class teachers and always made sure to help out the girl wearing the lowest cut shirt each day smh
Pads are useful due to convenience. They are simpler devices to pull out of a bag and interface with compared to a laptop. A laptop is objectively better for most tasks but the whole getting it out and unfolding it is a chore.
It's kind of hard to explain. They're just way more portable than a laptop for quick-access stuff.
I have a laptop and a pad at home, the pad gets way more use because it's just easier to cart it around the place as a mobile internet browser... And that is more or less all it is, an internet browser.
I never said it's too much work, I'm saying that if a better device exists people would prefer to use the better device.
If the task is simply to have a notepad and web browser then carrying a pad around all day is just more convenient to carrying a laptop around all day. The laptop has a million extra things it can do of course but ultimately the 2 things you do with 99% of your usage as a student are to scribble down small notes which you can do with a stylus and get automatically converted into typed font or browsing the web.
Same goes for general around the house use really.
A laptop is only necessary when your work is more complicated than web browsing and taking notes, for example if you need to do video or image editing while mobile, or 3d editing, etc etc. More complex tasks. For most people's usage a pad is simply a more convenient device.
I remember when the first gen iPad came out. I thought it was a joke and no one would buy one except for niche uses. Here I am today and it’s one of the most popular devices and I just don’t understand why. Literally everything it can do a laptop or a smartphone does better.
Yes. Because the internet has never existed before. I read the anarchist cookbook in my government class on my high school issues school iPad.
Congrats on going to a good school
It was a public high school in Indiana. Idk if I would label it as good
Well my high school certainly couldn’t afford one! But that’s mostly cuz we didn’t even have smart phones back then lol
There’s a lot more grants for them now. I live in the poorest county in my state and our poorest school has a bunch of carts full of iPads. Of course I’m sure that’s not the case for every state but most of the schools in my county are 1 to 1
I was just joshin but that’s cool tho. We got yelled at for checking our flip phones lol
Same. Had one teacher who got off on confiscating phones. Also he taught us logarithms so we could learn log tables instead of use calculators. Real Luddite. Dude was also a pervert and coached the girl’s track team. And an awful teacher. My god this man should’ve been in a jail not a school
Lol every school has at least one of each of those.
That was the only thing t9 eas great for, sending msgs covertly.
We had a guy like that at mine, he was one of the computer class teachers and always made sure to help out the girl wearing the lowest cut shirt each day smh
Wait a minute, wtf is a school issue iPad? That's what property taxes pay for now? This is bullshit
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Pads are useful due to convenience. They are simpler devices to pull out of a bag and interface with compared to a laptop. A laptop is objectively better for most tasks but the whole getting it out and unfolding it is a chore.
It's kind of hard to explain. They're just way more portable than a laptop for quick-access stuff.
I have a laptop and a pad at home, the pad gets way more use because it's just easier to cart it around the place as a mobile internet browser... And that is more or less all it is, an internet browser.
If opening a laptop is too much work idk what to tell you...
I never said it's too much work, I'm saying that if a better device exists people would prefer to use the better device.
If the task is simply to have a notepad and web browser then carrying a pad around all day is just more convenient to carrying a laptop around all day. The laptop has a million extra things it can do of course but ultimately the 2 things you do with 99% of your usage as a student are to scribble down small notes which you can do with a stylus and get automatically converted into typed font or browsing the web.
Same goes for general around the house use really.
A laptop is only necessary when your work is more complicated than web browsing and taking notes, for example if you need to do video or image editing while mobile, or 3d editing, etc etc. More complex tasks. For most people's usage a pad is simply a more convenient device.
Nah tablets are semi useful garbage. They don’t have an onboard keyboard making them useless for school. Only good for consuming media.
I remember when the first gen iPad came out. I thought it was a joke and no one would buy one except for niche uses. Here I am today and it’s one of the most popular devices and I just don’t understand why. Literally everything it can do a laptop or a smartphone does better.