iPad in Education

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Today we attended a conference on 1:1 laptops in schools. My first seminar was on the iPad, which was released this last weekend from Apple. First of all, all it was, was a big sales pitch on the iPad and first of all it was suppose to be about using it in education. Not a thing was taught on how to use it in education. That's because no body knows how to use it yet since it's so new. But my thought on the iPad is that it would be a bit harder to use them. Since they are most of a device that a tool, that's my thought. I say that because since they are more for fun and not learning. First you would have to really watch what you do on it since you can't put on an anti-virus software. Second of all, there isn't quite all the apps out there that are going to work very well for education. Also, how do you keep your students from going to the app store and downloading games and other apps that aren't needed. I didn't really catch a lot of this presentation since it was everything that I have seen on t.v. commercials and on the internet. But to me I don't think that is will work very well in a 1:1 environment. Still looking at PC over Macs.