Hundreds of students initially given
the iPads last school year found ways to bypass security installations, downloading games and freely surfing the web.
Not exact matches
Last year, my
school rolled out
iPads for every student, and with the transition to Common Core, it was the perfect time for a massive curriculum shakeup.
Our
school is mid-pivot in technology — we're in our second
year of a middle
school 1:2 iPad program, our first
year of having a cart of
iPads available for elementary, and our
last year of two PC labs for the students to use (next
year we'll have only one lab).
Over the
last six
years schools and districts have spent millions of dollars equipping their students and faculty with
iPads and Chromebooks, often in an attempt to create one - to - one classrooms.
As someone who taught middle
school math
last year for DC Public
Schools, I witnessed firsthand how much time was spent on computers and
iPads.
Schools got access to multi-user support for the iPad in iOS 9.3, Apple dropped its Apple ID requirement for
iPads, a cheaper $ 329 iPad launched
last year, and Apple has launched better management tools for the iPad.
That's not surprising given Apple's aggressive push in education —
last year, it sold 4.5 million
iPads to
schools and reported one billion downloads for iTunes U.
Over the
last three
years, Apple's
iPads and Mac notebooks — which accounted for about half of the mobile devices shipped to
schools in the United States in 2013 — have steadily lost ground to Chromebooks, inexpensive laptops that run on Google's Chrome operating system and are produced by Samsung, Acer and other computer makers.
In fact,
last year, Chromebooks have sold more than
iPads in
schools, as the former are cheaper and offer a more practical laptop for students.