Posted on 10/02/2013 1:39:32 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
EPIC FAIL: Los Angeles high schools now confiscate all free iPads they gave students
The Daily Caller 3 hours ago
Hilariously, officials at high schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District are now taking back a couple thousand iPads a week or so after giving them to students as part of a 47-school pilot program.
The mass repossession is the latest in a series of responses by school officials to the fact that hundreds of students figured out almost immediately how to hack the security settings on their iPads. Another 71 kids ostensibly lost their iPads just as immediately. (RELATED: LA schools give every kid an iPad—what could go wrong?)
Each iPad cost the school district $700. School district officials have said that the eventual goal is to supply every kid with one of the devices as part of a technology plan that will cost $1 billion.
As of Friday, students at Westchester High School and Roosevelt High School are now bereft of their iPads, reports the Los Angeles Times. At least most of them are now bereft, anyway. A Roosevelt teacher told the Times that about one-third of the devices still remain unaccounted for.
“They carted them out of every classroom in sixth period,” Westchester senior Brian Young told The Times on Monday. “There has been no word of when they’ll be back.”
Other schools may soon follow suit and recall their students’ iPads as well.
The hacking was far from rocket science for the tech-savvy students. Bypassing the security settings imposed by school officials took no more than a few simple clicks.
Students had told the Times they were frustrated because they couldn’t surf the Internet freely or visit social media and music streaming websites.
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Let me ask you this. If the cost of books and reference materials over four years were going to cost the school $2,000 dollars, would it be worth it to buy a $700 iPad and pay $500 for the electronic versions of the books?
If those iPads could then be used for electronic testing and other classroom instructional applications, would that make it an easier sale?
If this gave the teachers a way to communicate with the kids too, say to answer questions about homework without having to interrupt the class to do it, would that be helpful?
I can see some reasoning behind this. I still don’t think it’s workable.
my niece emailed herself an MP3 on a school IPAD and it worked!
that is insane,... $700 IPADs?
textbooks will last longer
LOL, seems to me part of the homework could have been to watch certain great speeches on YouTube and report on them.
The media portion could actually be a pretty good learning tool.
Imagine the lame IT security built into the Obamacare Exchange websites.
They are prime for hackers and scammers.
I really don’t care because it’s Kalifornia, but kids today are spoiled brats that think they are owed.
Computers in schools should be given out only to those that have great grades, good attendance and no discipline issues.
That being said, it’s all BS. Kids need to be instructed by people not machines, Teachers need to teach and not hand “education” over to the electronic babysitter.
I doubt the textbooks last more than a year or two. Don’t forget, new textbooks come out and they replace them. Kids beat them to death too.
You should see some of the kids running around with backpacks filled with books. Sure would cut down on that.
I use an iPad for note-taking at work. It’s a great tool. And if there’s something on the white-board, flip the thing and take a photo of it.
The iPads will be given out to teachers, friends, associates and a couple donations. It was all planned?
“LOL, seems to me part of the homework could have been to watch certain great speeches on YouTube and report on them.”
Nah-—it would be MLK and JFK 24/7.
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Computers in schools should be given out only to those that have great grades, good attendance and no discipline issues.
Agreed! The only problem with this, it other kids would be taking them away.
I do think teachers need to teach, but for me that is related to actual reading, writing, and math, and not Leftist indoctrination.
As for the iPads, I don’t see that as turning education over any more than referencing a book is turning it over.
I do think the kids could benefit from the educational aspects in that they could watch real events on YouTube and the like, give reports on it.
That’s a rather amazing way to address history.
Yes..., I believe it would. LOL
The education will only be as good as the teacher, no matter what technology is used.
Youtube is blocked on the school IPAD.
“watch sppeches”?
probably very short clips these days. Attention spans of a gnat.
This is what I call the Bezzle Circle. It's a mechanism that is ubiquitous in government and miriad in its variations. Most of government spending is consumed by it. The 'Rats are past masters at employing it and the GOP is too stupid to spot when it's being used to fund their downfall.
I am of the opinion, of late, that the GOP isn’t so much concerned with stopping the bezzle circle as they are in becoming active participants.
EGGSACTLY Batman.
The Cheapest Kindle makes sense if you go with the Student Text eBook Plan some are using because the cost is waaaaaaay less than buying Dead Tree Media Books.
A 700 dollar iPad makes no sense whatsoever.
Me too, but in a MS stack not Apple.
They are trying a new software app called Supervision that allows the teachers to see a mirror of their screens and if any are not on the app she has designated it highlights them and she hits a button and the app/webpage they have on is killed.
Auction ‘em off on eBay. Heck, if the price is low enough, I might buy one myself.
And you would be right. A classic example is the bezzle circle of the TSA scanners from which Michael Chertoff made millions.
Yes they are a good learning tool. But they should mount them into the desk and bolt them in.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
This is just too damned funny.
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