I’m hoping the iPad not being capable of multitasking might help me focus a little better
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in title, tags, annotations or urlTransformational? - bit by bit - 24 views
10 Amazing iPad App Video Demonstrations - 66 views
Pros and Cons of the iPad in Education - 49 views
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Lack of e-textbooks
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I found it a lot easier to take an iPhone pic of a diagram the teacher drew on the board than attempt to recreate it in my notebook
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iPad vs Kindle vs Netbooks vs Books: What's Best for Students? | AceOnlineSchools.com - Online Education - 51 views
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Textbooks
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3G wireless for $130 plus $15 or $30 per month
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imagine not being able to listen to music or read an e-book while surfing the web
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By all accounts, the iPad will be running current iPhone OS 3.1 which does allow you to listen to music while doing other things...the rub will be creating a presentation in Keynote for iPad without direct access to the web for photos...or having to shut down Safari to check your Twitter client, etc.
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I think a big miss on this article is any discussion of content creation capabilities of netbooks and iPad. Kindle and Dead Tree books don't allow extensive content creation, the iPad has limited capabilities, but netbooks open up a whole range of creative possibility. Also, it's obvious this article is geared toward college students, not middle or high school.
Diagnosing the Tablet Fever in Higher Education - 17 views
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So it's worth taking a careful look at whether the company will once again create a new category of device that make waves in education -- as it did with personal computers, digital music players, and smartphones -- or whether the iPad and other tabletss might be doomed to remain a niche offering.
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Mr. Jobs did mention iTunesU twice when listing the kinds of content that could be viewed on the iPad, referring to the company's partnership with many colleges to offer them free space for multimedia content like lecture recordings. But he otherwise focused on consumer uses -- watching movies, viewing photos, sending e-mail messages, and reading novels published by five trade publishers mentioned at the event. That does not mean that the company won't later promote the iPad's use on campuses, though, since it waited until after iPods and iPhones were established before beginning to work more heavily with colleges to promote those in education.
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the biggest impact of the iPad would be in the textbook market.
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Apple - iPad - Technical specifications and accessories for iPad. - 11 views
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Dictionary support for English (US), English (UK), French, French (Canadian), French (Swiss), German, Japanese, Dutch, Flemish, Spanish, Italian, Simplified Chinese (Handwriting, Pinyin), Russian
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Accessibility Support for playback of closed-captioned content VoiceOver screen reader Full-screen zoom magnification White on black Mono audio
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