On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Roger wrote:
Apparently one of the problems for schools that I know of, quite apart from the high cost of purchase of the ipad, are the apps. It's never just one app, losts are needed.
Students have to have wads of money to install all the apps on top of every other school cost. There will never be a final list of apps and that's it, it will be ongoing, as will the purchase of the next ipad, through the 6-10 years of school.
From what I understand so far, there may be 20 -30 apps as a minimum needed per student, or the school has to provide the apps which for say 3000 students works out at $6000 minimum per app. One school of that size has baulked at spending tens of thousands of dollars on apps and savvy students do not seem to like the ipad for school work.
If the average price is three dollars you have to pay up to $90 per year, or $7.50 per month. I just paid the mandatory school fees. It's $1020 per year, for a public school, to give it some perspective. Regards Peter