[alex_suzuki]

I haven‘t checked recently, are there any good alternative tablets, running Android maybe? I personally think iPads are insanely powerful and without (serious) competition.

[smoldesu]

Having used an iPad for my last couple years in high school, the machines were a total joke. Totally useless for english and history classes, and barely usable for math and science courses. When people weren't using them for classwork, they became instant distractions. The administration tried implementing MDM but ended up finding that the only solution was taking away the iPads during instructional time. Not to mention, ushering in iPads actually forced our computer science classes to shut down, since students no longer had machines with Python interpreters on them.

The iPad is insanely powerful and without serious competition, but completely useless in a classroom setting. Most people would prefer the laptops we had, teachers and students alike.

[HDThoreaun]

I don't see why students need a seriously powerful device. Students are given chromebooks because all the applications they need are on the cloud.

[spogbiper]

the schools I have worked with in the past few years might use ipads for the very youngest kids but by middle school its all chromebooks