Teachers/students - iPad feature requests.
As a teacher I would want -
Hardware
1. Long battery life and/or hot swappable and/or superfast recharge.
2. 9x11 screen (Paper dimension plus a little room for the dock menu)
3. Rugged with screen protected.
Software
1. Easy document distribution and collection to/from student's iPads
2. Total control/monitoring over students use in class.
3. Tight integration with a grading/student management ap
4. Calculator and algebra ap.
5. Ap for quick feedback on poll type questions.
Hardware
1. Long battery life and/or hot swappable and/or superfast recharge.
2. 9x11 screen (Paper dimension plus a little room for the dock menu)
3. Rugged with screen protected.
Software
1. Easy document distribution and collection to/from student's iPads
2. Total control/monitoring over students use in class.
3. Tight integration with a grading/student management ap
4. Calculator and algebra ap.
5. Ap for quick feedback on poll type questions.
Comments
Originally posted by Kishan
It should have the ability to run Palm or Windows Mobile software or else it would be pretty useless. That is if it is to be of a smaller form factor.
I experimented with using the palm in class and it's just too small. I believe we need a form factor that can exactly replace paper assignments.
Actually, if I was being unrealistic I would request a dual screen tablet - one for an assignment sheet and one for book material.
Using the Nintendo DS has given me another perspective on this type of thing. Nintendo is packaging some pretty impressive hardware in a very inexpensive product: dual display, touch screen, wireless networking. The clamshell case makes it durable, too. It seems to me that a classroom could use the DS as is for a lot of things, with appropriate software. You're asking for bigger displays, but the functionality needed is there.
Waste of time. Now if you do sketches and nothing but mostly sketches then a tablet computer would be right for you. otherwise they aren't very useful.
I know, I have one. The only thing it gets used for is, Alias Sketchbook, it's worthless for anything else.
Originally posted by webmail
Why would you want handwriting recognition? Writing on a pad, is soooooooooooooooooooo slow compared to typing. This is why Tablets always fail.
For most people, writing is the same speed, if not faster for getting data down. The only problem with trying to use it on a tablet is that the recognition software is too slow.
Can you imagine trying to get a class of six year olds typing. Also if the only method of input was a keyboard, and the tablet was used for almost everything, it would mean alot of people would grow up not learning to write with a pen.
stu
As an adult I get annoyed if a computer can't recognize my bad handwriting, but in a k-12 situation it would be perfectly reasonable to expect a student to improve his/her handwriting to the point where a computer can recognize it.
And it's absolutely necessary that they can do sketches. I teach physics and I need them to be able to diagram problems.