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November 21, 2013
Tablets In Public Schools
The problems with the iPad program in the LAUSD schools have been administrative; failure to evaluate the full cost, failure to fully consider the physical security of the devices, failure to understand how quickly their bright students would bypass their flimsy filtering software.
OTOH, here's a community college in County Laois in Ireland that went for 64 GB HP Elite Pads. They paid €550 each for them (about US$740). "Students experienced problems such as tablets failing to switch on, tablets spontaneously going into sleep mode, devices looping while performing automatic repairs, system board failures and issues with wi-fi." According to HP's website, the HP Elite Pad runs Windows 8 Pro 32. The school has replaced all the pads with books.
Filed under Technology | permalink | November 21, 2013 at 10:37 PM
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