I understand that they have some vague terror that some kid will get abused by someone they met on Twitter via their school iPad, or that some kid will be caught watching dirty movies on their school iPad — but them's the risks of providing a useful tool.
Giving folks an iPad as a locked-down, dumbed-down electronic textbook that's useless outside of school is as dumb as saying we're going to provide cars, but only for circling around the school parking lot. And it's not at all surprising that the kids have broken that security.
L.A. students breach school iPads’ security
As students at Roosevelt High and other schools hack L.A. Unified-issued iPads for non-schoolwork, the district ponders solutions.
Interestingly enough, of course, the individuals that made the decision to provide the i-Pads also neglected to take into account that they would need to have keyboards.
This morning’s LA Times now points out that there is no clear policy in place for the financial responsibility for these i-Pads should they be broken or lost. How many of us former teachers remember what text books used to look like at the end of the year?
Yeah, @Gloria, I can understand the sentiment involved, but it doesn’t sound like a very well thought-out policy.
There is coffee all over my newspaper!!!!
Heh.