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[Delicious Waffles]

Seems hiring more teachers and reducing class sizes would have a greater effect.

I'm not Luddite, but I'm skeptical about the efficacy of computers in teaching. They're tools. It's better to focus on quality instruction.

This.

I'm a substitute teacher right now. Using computers, mainly SMART Boards, in the classroom is definitely a great tool to have. It's a hook. Thinking back when we were younger, would you rather see a teacher using a paper map on the wall with a pointer or opening up Google Earth and going around the globe? This is all awesome but if you don't have quality instruction, it's a waste. Using this stuff adds to the experience and makes it a lot more interesting for the student but if you rely solely on it, you're doing it wrong.

 

[btrboyev]

Because he is wrong. As someone who deploys iPads for his corporate masters, you can't remove the security profile without the complex security passcode which only the admin should know and if you restore the device under iOS7 to reactivate it you need the original Apple ID which would be setup in Configurator.

So the student would have a bricked device until handing it back sheepishly.

It's not perfect but it's the most secure platform out there compared to the others.

Putting in recovery mode and setting up as a new iPad works..

 

[Souless_PJ]

Putting in recovery mode and setting up as a new iPad works..

No it doesn't.

You can restore the device by putting it in DFU or recovery mode when it is Lost mode, however after restoring your device, the person will be prompted to enter the Apple ID and password, so it won’t be possible to use the device.

 

[JesseEwiak]

An important note, regardless of whether the idea is good or not, is that a lot of the educational software is only built for the Apple ecosystem.

 

[delta25]

I'm not sure how I feel about this but at the end of the day spending this kind of money on education regardless of the "benefits" is far better money spent than fighting some fuck tard war.

 

[Zoe]

I'm not sure how I feel about this but at the end of the day spending this kind of money on education regardless of the "benefits" is far better money spent than fighting some fuck tard war.

This stuff is funded at the local level. Those wars are still getting their money.

 

[Gallbaro]

This.

I'm a substitute teacher right now. Using computers, mainly SMART Boards, in the classroom is definitely a great tool to have. It's a hook. Thinking back when we were younger, would you rather see a teacher using a paper map on the wall with a pointer or opening up Google Earth and going around the globe? This is all awesome but if you don't have quality instruction, it's a waste. Using this stuff adds to the experience and makes it a lot more interesting for the student but if you rely solely on it, you're doing it wrong.

A projector and a whiteboard work just as well and are $4000 cheaper.

 

[ReturnOfTheRAT]

I'd love to know what security was in place and how they broke it. iPads that we deploy are linked to an icloud account with restrictions enabled. Anyone wiht an iPad knows that you can use restrictions to turn off a lot of app downloads, twitter, facebook, explicit content, ect. On the work network sites can be limited if you have a web filter or proxy in place. The school had nothing of this sort?

 

[TheRedSnifit]

A projector and a whiteboard work just as well and are $4000 cheaper.

$4000? The ones used in public schools usually cost about $1500.

 

[Zoe]

A projector and a whiteboard work just as well and are $4000 cheaper.

Smart boards let you save your work.

 

[sgi02]

Do these security measures actually ever work? When I was young, a local library had free internet access. I would go there and try to read up on computer stuff at 3DFXZone and HardOCP. It would block those sites completely, and also anything else gaming related. However, if you tried to go to 'Persian Kitty' to check out the latest nudes it worked fine, hell it worked for the majority of adult oriented websites. While it was cool as a kid to 'beat the system' its crazy to think such loopholes existed and for that matter, still similarly exist today.

 

[DiscoJer]

An important note, regardless of whether the idea is good or not, is that a lot of the educational software is only built for the Apple ecosystem.

That isn't new, either. When I was a kid, all the schools had Apple II computers, because that's where most the educational software was.