Have you seen classes in universities? In schools? My daughter is in secondary school - they all have mandatory iPads.

ChrisMarshallNY 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Not in some time (retired). I have seen lots of iPads in medical facilities. In fact, just this morning, I was looking at one, with a badly-designed app for checking in patients.

Many of the patients are older folks. They tend to press long and hard on the big buttons.

A sensible app developer traps tap and long-touch, and sends them both to the same handler. This developer only catches the tap event, and ignores long-touch. The attendant was getting grumpy, because she had to keep telling patients "tap 'gently'."

It's just me, I know, but I get salty, when I see this kind of careless UI design (it was the app's fault -not the iPad's). I know that the medical group paid big bucks for the app.

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snowwrestler 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

My local school district is 100% Chromebooks, first issued in 4th grade and through high school.

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jimmydddd 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Our middle schools started out with iPads. But they switched to Chromebooks because they were a lot more useful. Also, apparently, middle school boys aren't that good at caring for iPads. :-)

	▲	bilbo0s 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		apparently, middle school boys aren't that good at caring for iPads. :-) Your district is liable to be unpleasantly surprised. Like ours, they will likely find middle school-ers are worse at caring for Chromebooks. The rate of broken Chromebooks for us was staggeringly high.

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organsnyder 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

My kids' district gives them iPads in middle school (5th through 8th) and MacBook Airs in high school.

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DaSHacka 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

My old Highschool, as well as many other schools I've seen since, mandate Chromebooks.

I think it tends to be the more well-off schools with the iPads, the chromebooks are definitely a lot cheaper over the long run for the district.

	▲	bigC5560 8 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		This. I went to a broke, small school and we were assigned Chromebooks. When I was younger some teachers had a few iPads, but they were old and mostly used for games when we got our assignments done. We didn't do work on them the way we did the Chromebooks in middle/high school.
	▲	happyopossum 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> the chromebooks are definitely a lot cheaper over the long run for the district. I'd need to seem some evidence for that - cheap chromebooks break very easily. Talk to any school IT person who handles device repair/replacement and you will hear nightmares of 50+% loss rates...