Bolton School equips every pupil with iPod BBC vid

[Hollie1985]

BBC News - Bolton school equips every pupil with iPod Touch

 

A school in Bolton has given each of its pupils an iPod Touch to help them with their school work and keep in touch with teachers.

 

The Essa Academy spent £120,000 equipping them all with the gadget.

[webman]

Oh god. Not another one.

[localzuk]

I love how they say they've spent £120k. Fine, the initial outlay is £120k, but what about the TCO projections? Bearing in mind that mobile device batteries don't usually last for more than a year or 2, and the iPod touch has a non-user replaceable battery (which is also not covered by warranty IIRC).

 

Also take into account how much use they'll be when the child forgets to charge it up, leaves it at home, etc...

Edited December 11, 2009 by localzuk

[p858snake]

Are they the schools/LA or are the parents buying them from the school or such?

 

personally I wouldn't really like this unless you could run your own store/application server and could restrict which applications were available to the darling students and easily control them.

Edited December 11, 2009 by p858snake
s/stpre/store/

[Jamo]

I have one thing to say..... what a god awful waste of money.

[Mr.Ben]

I think we should all not spend the £120k and pay off the national debt!

 

Agreed on the waste of money during these times.

[Martin]

Well Brentford CLC are getting iPhones!!!

 

It is a good job the the UK economy is in such a good state

 

mb

[soveryapt]

As nice a device and as nice an idea as it is to equip all pupils with various learning aids the one thing I have to say, which covers the idea of keeping track of them all, keeping them safe, the money and the battery problem ...

 

 

AAARRRRRGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

 

[maark]

Altough i can see the reasoning behind it I could see problems:

kids using them to play games/listen to music in lessons

kids being mugged

kids losing them

them getting smashed

 

I would be interested in how many are still working in a years time

[AIT]

BBC News - Bolton school equips every pupil with iPod Touch

 

A school in Bolton has given each of its pupils an iPod Touch to help them with their school work and keep in touch with teachers.

 

The Essa Academy spent £120,000 equipping them all with the gadget.

 

oh GOD!!!! Why... Just Why.. Are the Students really benefiting.

 

Let alone the running cost of the devices.

[localzuk]

Well Brentford CLC are getting iPhones!!!

 

It is a good job the the UK economy is in such a good state

 

mb

 

From that article:

 

The pupils were selected based on their submission of essays outlining how they felt the iPhone would aid their education. They cited the use of applications such as Periodic, allowing access to the periodic table and the use of the calendar and tasks for personal planning.

 

So, a planner with a periodic table in it then? I know that's me being facetious, but many of these applications are already used - in the form of student planners. Ours contain various things like maps and other educational reference material.

[Guest theeldergeek]

Oh god. Not another one.

 

 

heh hee...

 

http://www.edugeek.net/forums/general-chat/46522-bbc-technology-ipods-every-student.html

 

oh yes.

[Guest theeldergeek]

BBC News - Bolton school equips every pupil with iPod Touch

 

A school in Bolton has given each of its pupils an iPod Touch to help them with their school work and keep in touch with teachers.

 

The Essa Academy spent £120,000 equipping them all with the gadget.

 

Yes, I posted about this too...

http://www.edugeek.net/forums/general-chat/46522-bbc-technology-ipods-every-student.html

 

I think it's a waste of money, personally. Whoever endorsed it is a brick or two short of a load.

[soveryapt]

in the form of student planners. Ours contain various things like maps and other educational reference material.

 

Yes, but this just means they will want us to be writing apps now custom to the school with maps and the like and even live updating of timetables so the whole school can be kept up to date with Christmas changes and the like.

 

[localzuk]

Yes, but this just means they will want us to be writing apps now custom to the school with maps and the like and even live updating of timetables so the whole school can be kept up to date with Christmas changes and the like.

 

 

You mean you *haven't* done this already!?

[p858snake]

How about a app that auto searches popular social media sites (eg: flickr, youtube, myspace, facebook ect) for certain words such as the school name and popular school nicknames so its easy to keep up with the "news" (or watch the latest "happy slapping" video, not that I'm condoning that or anything).

[soveryapt]

You mean you *haven't* done this already!?

 

My school has sense .. we haven't got a load of iPods for pupils (though having said that, one of the heads seems to have some pockets of money so maybe I should start worrying!) ..

 

But, you know, I may have a go at the interactive app thing .. lol .. )

 

Question, roughly based on this thread, does anyone know if the OS X Server will allow you to control iphones/ipods as in locking of app purchases etc?

[soveryapt]

I bet you could employ a gaggle of TA's to drag them to lessons cheaper.

 

I always wondered what the collective noun for TA's was .. lol ..

[Jamo]

Mmmm if I was given one of these the wireless would be turned off straight away so I could get more life out of the battery... I mean there is a whole day of school you would be needing it to be lasting for while listening to music....