The Apple App Store is full of well-vetted and useful software. I truly believe a mix of devices is the best solution for schools. Devices have more memory and there are new features for both platforms that make them viable for use in the classroom. However, even here there were difficulties at first as students needed to be attached to the internet to use the online Google tools and many of popular Flash-based sites were simply incompatible.įast forward to today and most of those bugs have worked themselves out. Schools began to think twice.Įnter the Chromebook, a device which was much cheaper and required little maintenance.
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The 16GB of RAM was quickly eaten up by graphic-intensive apps, i-books, and PDF files, and the use of the camera for taking photos and videos. Taking care of the installation of apps and maintenance of the devices, as well as providing a positive experience for each shared user, was not easy. Other districts waited for the second version to be released, which did have a camera and could be mirrored via Apple TV or the Reflector app, but only purchased the model with 16GB of RAM.Īfter a while, it became evident that maintaining a shared cart of iPads was no small feat. These districts purchased the first iPad, which did not mirror and, believe it or not, had no built-in camera. The fact is they were easy to justify for a purchase of a shared cart since the Apple app store had so many wonderful applications for remediation, practice, and extension. Ed-tech expert Kathy Schrock weighs in on mixed platform solutions for all grade levels A few years ago, many school districts jumped on the iPad bandwagon, when they were still brand new.