moosefuel

Programming is not in my "wheelhouse"!

Sure, but at least you know a little about it. Just like "math" is not in my wheelhouse, but I'm glad I understand the broad concepts, even if I can't do the problems worth anything.

My wife is a teacher, and they have about 20-30 iPads for the whole school. They sit unused most of the time, unless the kids need to do "research" (which means mostly web browsing and goofing-off). This is extremely sad to say the least, because we all know the iPad is capable of so much. The problem here is that Apple loves to be seen as a partner with education, but their devices are actually not useful at all. When the iPads go from classroom to classroom and different kids use them without user accounts for each kid, they have to be severely restricted as to what they can do because they change hands so often. The next time they get the iPad, chances are that the textbook in iBooks they downloaded last time will be missing, any project they started will have to be re-done, unless they use a service like evernote or Google apps, and even then they have to sign back in to multiple accounts, which takes a lot of time before they can even get started on their actual work. Multi-users would allow them to sign-in once, and then have everything all ready to go. Kind of like I have on my Mac. Google has the advantage because once you sign in with them on your Chromebook, all your stuff appears and you're good to go. It's actually pretty amazing to me that Apple still just doesn't understand this very basic concept. It's because they design iPads as individual devices which should never change hands, but in schools even the textbooks change hands all the time. I used to be a big advocate for Apple in education, but their sluggishness is appalling.