- 10 hours battery life!
- Thousands of applications easily available on iTunes perfect for so many areas of education. Many are free and essentially do the one thing they’re designed for, rather than being bloated applications trying to please so many areas of education and becoming far too complicated.
- Affordable, robust, intuitive, engaging technology. (Based on using iPhone and iPod Touch experience)
- Invisible operating system! This is the main problem and hurdle for users today on their home computer or PC at school, the operating system. They are huge, monsters, bloated and getting in the way of a simple user experience. They have been created to do so much and most people don’t need all that power for high end gaming or number crunching, how many people on my street need to calculate weather forecasts for the next month? None. Or edit a feature length movie with effects? None! We browse and email, chat, and listen to music, play a game or watch iPlayer, the sort of activity the iPad is made for.
The OS of the iPad is not going to get in the way of individuals learning, invisible technology is the best, the technology that just works, doesn’t get in the way empowering both teachers and students is all we need. And now it’s here, I never notice the operating system on my iPhone or iPod Touch, no messages alerting me to missing drivers or constant updates. (The odd annoying text from my telephone provider) just a slick, intuitive experience based on years of experience from those engineers at Apple. After all what killed off the Windows mobile devices? Not the hardware, but the complicated nature of the software, getting in the way of simple tasks, like creating a slide show or sending an email.
- 10 hours battery life!
- Thousands of hours of free fantastic resources from Universities around the world, via iTunes U that will look fantastic on the iPad.
- Mobility and accessibility, two very exciting areas of education, allowing students and teachers to access learning resources and content when-ever they need it, where-ever they are.
