For quite some time Apple has not stopped advertising and supporting the inclusion of the iPad in the world of education. Proof of this is that many states in the United States joined the idea and thousands of students are already using the iPad in the classroom. Now, it seems that all that glitters is not gold and Apple itself has had to take action on the matter in the State of Maine, where they have returned to the MacBook in the classroom.
Teachers in the State of Maine have stated that the iPad has not been a good idea and that students more than improve what they do in classrooms is to take the tool as a game console and not take advantage of it.
We are facing the first time that a State of the United States decides to reverse the initiative that it had put in the hands of each one of the thousands of students that are distributed by the hundreds of educational centers with iPad to be able to follow the classes. The idea is very ambitious and it is that adapted digital content has been created in addition to many developers They have generated very good applications that help the student to improve academically.
Such has been the commotion mounted by teachers that Apple has given them the possibility of returning to the use of the MacBook in the classrooms without having to make any extra refund of money in the case of both students and teachers. Now, at this point, we must ask ourselves what has gone wrong.
With each passing year the iPad becomes a more and more powerful device with which you can do everything that a user could need without completely replacing what could be a laptop. Apple, however, points out that it is a device that allows you to do everything and does not lie since application developers have improved them in a way that makes it more productive.
However, the problem seems to be that it comes from the idea that students are not taking the iPad as a work tool but as a game or a distraction. Well, gentlemen from Maine, I'm afraid the problem is not in the iPad but in society. I am a witness that in my workplace the use of the iPad has led to better results for students although at first you have to educate the child that it is a tool and not a game.
As for whether the MacBook is more or less productive, it is true that a MacBook has greater possibilities in which a content production it refers, not because the iPad does not have it but because when both devices coexist in this society, the human being will always tend to go to the one who makes him be in a greater comfort zone. For all this, what You have to do is that the iPad is equal in comfort to the MacBook and for this what you have to do is work on the applications, accessories and especially the iOS system.
For now, our beloved MacBook takes the cake in the schools of the State of Maine that celebrate the return of the notebook from the bitten apple.
Well, I do not see the grace to work on a less appropriate tool just for wanting to ... it is crazy - it is an oratorical resource, without the intention of causing annoyance - to affirm «For all this, what you have to do is that the iPad It equates in comfort to the MacBook and for this, what you have to do is work on the applications, accessories and especially the iOS system »… if you already have the laptop, why are you going to put yourself in that nuisance!