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Would the portability of an iPad be welcome in the student's backpack or the chef's countertop? Absolutely.

There's a big difference between reflecting upon the future of the iPad and claiming that nobody knows what it's good for anymore.

I noticed the iPad came with GarageBand preinstalled. As a sometimes composer I was curious to try it out, but when I try to open it it just closes right away. The same happens with Numbers, iTunes U, iMovie, Pages, and Keynote.

The device is under the influence of a central management console.

iPad lacks a full web browser

Google Drive to be already installed.  Just a personal preference.

Today we discovered Fivestone, a Nashville-based design studio, engineered one of the more creative uses of the Post-it® Notes camera we’ve seen. They captured their team’s paper-based doodles and turned them into animations.

recalled one day during midterm exams when she saw a couple of students sit down at a cluster of couches, pull a marker board over and begin working their way through a math problem together. Shortly after beginning, they texted a couple more classmates, who joined their discussion a few minutes later.

"We saw that constantly in students' snippets," Doshi said. "They'd take a picture of a study area and say they were looking for an empty table. But when you look at the pictures, there were four-person tables and only one person sitting at them."

the space was underutilized when students were not always comfortable sitting next to somebody they didn't know and "hacking and settling" for long periods of time.

academic hub for all undergraduate students

It has dozens and dozens of classrooms that can accommodate classes as large as 330 students and as few as a handful, most equipped for distance learning as well.

breakout study rooms

Teachers can create one email address for their class and give it to all of their students to use to publish to a class blog. Just ask your students to add their username or some other way of identifying themselves at the beginning or end of the email.

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