chrisp65 Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Tony, it's instant, it's public, it's readily available....what's not to like? Stef, having stalked a few of the teacher accounts they are either the most boring vanilla sober people on the planet, or they clearly have other accounts! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted January 5, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted January 5, 2014 (edited) Tony, it's instant, it's public, it's readily available....what's not to like? Stef, having stalked a few of the teacher accounts they are either the most boring vanilla sober people on the planet, or they clearly have other accounts! Unsurprising. Teachers love to talk about teaching. That's an awful attitude Tony. Most schools use it now so you'd be running out of options for your kid. Edited January 5, 2014 by StefanAVFC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8pints Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 You read my mind. I would make an awesome Batgirl. I can see it, I notice you've had experience of striking ominous poses semi-cloaked in darkness - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 Tony, it's instant, it's public, it's readily available....what's not to like? My dentist , my doctor and my kids school all communicate with me via a text , that's instant and readily available as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 agreed, and the school also do that, in fact, they use any and every channel available, there's simply no excuse for any half arsed parent not to get a timely message 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 Tony, it's instant, it's public, it's readily available....what's not to like? Stef, having stalked a few of the teacher accounts they are either the most boring vanilla sober people on the planet, or they clearly have other accounts! Unsurprising. Teachers love to talk about teaching. That's an awful attitude Tony. Most schools use it now so you'd be running out of options for your kid. Seeing as teachers seem to spend all their time on twitter , they'd probably be better off home educated anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 According to the paper, the school I went to is now handing out iPads to students Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 According to the paper, the school I went to is now handing out iPads to students the school I went to they would have all been stolen by now ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCforever1991 Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 So they can all look like hipsters? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted January 6, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted January 6, 2014 We don't hand them out but we have around 30 in school to use. Just like booking the IT suite etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 Apparently their parents have to put a deposit down or if they don't want to or can't afford it then they can borrow one. The ones who put the deposit down get to take it home and 'do work'. Not sure what work you can actually do with an iPad considering it's basically a hand held internet browser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCforever1991 Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 I'm sure they have study apps or something like that.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 Microsoft Surfaces are cheaper and you can actually use them in place of a laptop as they do everything a laptop does. Should have gone for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCforever1991 Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 Xbox = Microsoft Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 Yes, Microsoft's Achilles' heel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted January 6, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted January 6, 2014 All the teachers get them as well and we have Apple. It's useful in the classroom as you can load an app, use Apple TV and put it on the IWB to for modelling purposes etc, but I can't see how productive taking them home would be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coda Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 All the teachers get them as well and we have Apple. It's useful in the classroom as you can load an app, use Apple TV and put it on the IWB to for modelling purposes etc, but I can't see how productive taking them home would be. Sounds like this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK0BMaUMmGw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 Both my kids are doing music, the tablet can be used as sheet music that scrolls along whilst you're playing, gives tuition when needed, links to youtube for practical tutorials and records your best shot at the piece to take in the next day. Similarly, as mentioned before, with work often now being in the form of a wiki or a presentation, homework needs to be digital. The school can't afford to 'go digital' and presume all kids have access to equal (if any) kit, therefore there has to be access to a tablet for the homework. Back to the twitter vs text thing, lots of parents can lead fairly chaotic lives (not in the busy Tony sense, in the no credit this week sense) and end up changing phone numbers quite often. Whilst mummies mobile might go off or missing or get changed three times a year, invariably her twitter and facebook remain unchanged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted January 6, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted January 6, 2014 Ah fair enough, I was talking purely from the Primary School age POV where there's absolutely no need for them to have them at home for academic reasons and I'm not sure they're mature enough for it to be honest. As much as I think music is important, I don't know if funding could warrant the individual children who play an instrument to get an iPad. Once you get to HS age, then I would start to agree with you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 What an awful waste of money to have Apple everything. Seriously. Is this some hipster school? Anyway... My nan has been put in a home and so my relatives have been clearing her and my gramp's (who died over a year ago) house out and it's just interesting to see certain relatives who never bothered to go round and visit or help out when my gramp was still alive and nan was at home now turning up to see what they can take, not for sentimental value but looking for things that are still new or might be worth something. I'll leave the vultures to it. Also, one cousin has apparently cut her work days down to 4 days per week because 5 days were just too much for her. She's a receptionist for a small company. And my aunt's parter has just bought her and her husband a house! She has such a hard life... I might hire some Bulgarians to be my new relatives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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