{"id":11767,"date":"2020-02-07T18:04:11","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T18:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=11767"},"modified":"2020-02-08T22:03:46","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T22:03:46","slug":"reply-to-aarons-bookmarking-of-why-i-wont-buy-an-ipad-ten-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/reply-to-aarons-bookmarking-of-why-i-wont-buy-an-ipad-ten-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Reply to: Aaron&#8217;s bookmarking of: Why I won\u2019t buy an Ipad: ten years later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Aaron,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d read the <a href=\"https:\/\/collect.readwriterespond.com\/the-ipad-awkwardly-turns-10\/\">Gruber piece<\/a> you also linked to to but not <a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2020\/01\/27\/nascent-boulangism.html\">Cory Doctorow&#8217;s<\/a>. I agree with much of both in principal. In practise, in my classroom, not so much.<\/p>\n<p>We are 1-2-1 iPad. Half the class have old 2013 iPad Airs that have just stopped handling OS updates. Their batteries are good enough for a day&#8217;s use. While we do consume (reading\/researching the web, watching videos) they are also <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bantonbiggies\/\">pretty creative<\/a>. Pupils have more freedom to install and customise than they do with our Local Authority managed PCs. They are also very good for mixing with &#8216;real&#8217; work, messy making, being robust and easier to put down safely that our Windows Laptops (no cables). The go outside too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Aaron, I&#8217;d read the Gruber piece you also linked to to but not Cory Doctorow&#8217;s. I agree with much of both in principal. In practise, in my classroom, not so much. We are 1-2-1 iPad. Half the class have old 2013 iPad Airs that have just stopped handling OS updates. Their batteries are good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[21,673],"post_format":[642],"class_list":{"0":"post-11767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-status","6":"category-wwwd","7":"tag-classroom","8":"tag-ipads","9":"post_format-post-format-status","10":"kind-reply","12":"h-entry","13":"hentry","14":"post-kind"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-33N","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11767"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11771,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11767\/revisions\/11771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11767"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=11767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}