iPad Learning for All the Wrong Reasons
Ewan McIntosh,
Huffington Post,
Jan 06, 2011
Ewan McIntosh taps into two very good points in this analysis of the trend toward using iPads in schools. First, purchasing the $750 machines might not save the money administrators expect. Not only will they be very out of date by the time they 'pay for themselves', the computers also require ongoing software and media purchases, increasing their costs. Second, the trend toward purchasing general use iPads, effectively recreating the computer labs in use in the 90s, belies the fact that iPads are intended to be personal machines, customized to their owners' preferences, and that many of the benefits of an iPad are lost if they are anonymized. Good points, good argument.
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