This is a strange question. We are about to buy an iPad for someone (who is 80) in China. We have tried setting the "language" to Chinese, and note that much English still remains, a potential problem.
Will the Chinese version be more "Chinese"?
The base OS is Apple's responsibility, but, for each app, it's the developer's responsibility to support various languages. So, if it doesn't find Chinese language support in the app, it will use the defaults, which are probably most often English.
... Every student who attends Patton should acquire skills in writing, researching, and citation of term papers, as well as learning how to use Microsoft ... Power Point ... in support of academic goals. ...
“PowerPoint makes us stupid,” Gen. James N. Mattis of the Marine Corps, the Joint Forces commander, said this month at a military conference in North Carolina. (He spoke without PowerPoint.) Brig. Gen. H. R. McMaster, who banned PowerPoint presentations when he led the successful effort to secure the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar in 2005, followed up at the same conference by likening PowerPoint to an internal threat.
“It’s dangerous because it can create the illusion of understanding and the illusion of control,” General McMaster said in a telephone interview afterward. “Some problems in the world are not bullet-izable.”
One interesting feature, is the "scratch pad" area of the screen-- where the student can use her finger to handwrite the factoring of equations, etc. directly on the iPad.
I assume that this "scratch pad" could be turned in along with the homework or test prepared on the iPad.
That got me thinking about whether handwriting recognition would be practical on the iPad...
... especially the limited character set of math equations...
Well, there's an app for that (handwriting recognition):
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This is a strange question. We are about to buy an iPad for someone (who is 80) in China. We have tried setting the "language" to Chinese, and note that much English still remains, a potential problem.
Will the Chinese version be more "Chinese"?
The base OS is Apple's responsibility, but, for each app, it's the developer's responsibility to support various languages. So, if it doesn't find Chinese language support in the app, it will use the defaults, which are probably most often English.
... Every student who attends Patton should acquire skills in writing, researching, and citation of term papers, as well as learning how to use Microsoft ... Power Point ... in support of academic goals. ...
Isn't that a bit of an oxymoron: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/wo...owerpoint.html
“PowerPoint makes us stupid,” Gen. James N. Mattis of the Marine Corps, the Joint Forces commander, said this month at a military conference in North Carolina. (He spoke without PowerPoint.) Brig. Gen. H. R. McMaster, who banned PowerPoint presentations when he led the successful effort to secure the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar in 2005, followed up at the same conference by likening PowerPoint to an internal threat.
“It’s dangerous because it can create the illusion of understanding and the illusion of control,” General McMaster said in a telephone interview afterward. “Some problems in the world are not bullet-izable.”
Gotta love "bullet-izable".
Click on the video at:
http://www.hmhco.com/about-us.html
One interesting feature, is the "scratch pad" area of the screen-- where the student can use her finger to handwrite the factoring of equations, etc. directly on the iPad.
I assume that this "scratch pad" could be turned in along with the homework or test prepared on the iPad.
That got me thinking about whether handwriting recognition would be practical on the iPad...
... especially the limited character set of math equations...
Well, there's an app for that (handwriting recognition):
http://www.macworld.com/appguide/app...2&expand=false
I bought it (2 iPads) and it looks pretty good...
Yes, Virginia, it does have a primitive calculator...
I wonder how difficult it would be to recognize Chinese (or other) characters.
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Isn't that a bit of an oxymoron: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/wo...owerpoint.html
Gotta love "bullet-izable".
LOL!
Or this:
http://docs.house.gov/gopleader/Hous...ealth-Plan.pdf
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