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Quotation of the Day for September 4, 2013"The iPad is among the recent panaceas being peddled to schools, but like those that came before, its ostensibly subversive shell houses a fairly conventional approach to learning. Where Texas Instruments graphing calculators include a programming framework accessible even to amateurs, writing code for an iPad is restricted to those who purchase an Apple developer account, create programs that align with Apple standards, and submit their finished products for Apple's approval prior to distribution. As such, for the average student, imaginative activities on an iPad are always mediated by pre-existing apps and therefore, are limited to virtual worlds created by others, not by students themselves. Pair this with the fact that most teachers and administrators only allow classroom use of a few endorsed apps and it becomes clear that these devices are doing more to centralize the school's authority over the learning process than to encourage self-directed creative activity." - Phil Nichols, in "Go Ahead, Mess With Texas Instruments". [http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/08/go-ahead-mess-with-texas-instruments/278899/] Submitted by: Terry Labach Sep. 3, 2013  |
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