Thats 30 new listings on ebay then

Time to grab a bargin me thinks.

so why not

just use the iPod Touch, cheaper to buy and run, download anything wirelessly. No camera so no geo-tagging but so what.. the idea is new educational uses / apps. Not like they need tom tom to get round school.

when i first heard this i thought it was a load of #$%%$<s

saw this on the news last night. my first thought was that it was a shocking waste of money and really a load of hairy #$%%$<s.

But having had half a day to think about it i still think it's a load of #$%%$<s

Boys for the Jobs

Why not open a MacDonalds in the school whilst we're at it?

Mind you, that's where the best pupils from Hounslow will end up working anyway, if they're lucky.

Nice...

Let's try out another way for Labour to shit a metric crapload of cash on some wanky idea to make kids feel more included.

Wanky ideas like this on the increase

Beatings and canings on the decrease

and hey presto...

Education standards on the decrease

You want an education

Yup we have an app for that

It's not the only one

A friend of mine is a teacher, his year (or some of) were issued Asus eee 701's as part of their learning.

Of course they were linux and none of the mongoid IT staff could work it, so a new member of staff on full wage was hired to support them. (At least someone got a job from it.)

Of the 280 or so handed out, a 190 or so were handed back in. The rest having been... Ahem. "Lost."

Cost of taxpayer.... Tremendous.

Cost of teaching value - Not much.

Most couldn't work them as they were unable to grasp linux (Even with the kiddy interface) and it didn't prepare any of them for a written exam, as no one writes anymore the "sitting down for two hours" killed them. And their writing is so bad you can't read it, thus setting them up for a life of A levels and University which are mainly 3 hour essays in exams.

Just stupid. It won't help reading giving them a personal games-, I mean personal assistant, it will just promote a lack of the basic R's. Why add up when there is an app for that, why write when you can stab at a qwerty keyboard with your overweight podgy fingers.

What next, an immigrant to go into work for you and sit your lessons? Computer based exams with nothing to shape them for the real world where it is all pens, paper and post it notes.

"Fire" because education today is a disaster.

WTF??

"We went for the iPhone because it gives children more of a facility to customise applications than they can get at the moment with Windows based devices,"

What a load of cobblers. One of the main disadvantages of the iPhone is that it is locked down and isn't customisable like Win Mob which lets you customise just about anything you like. Don't like the default keyboard? Fine, change it to one of hundreds available. Want to change what is on your home screen? Fine, add or remove whatever you like. Ahhh freedom.

Why doesn't he just say the truth which is, "We went for the iPhone because it is the latest flashy eye candy must have toy that lets kids have fun in class with hundreds of games and fart apps. Screw learning anything!".

Just hope its not coming out of the tax payers pocket.

There's a book for that

Lets see: one decent science book, a biro and a paper diary. Nope, can't see why an iphone is cost effective and has any beneficial value in education apart from looking at youtube whilst in class.

In a way I feel sorry for the kids who are now a target of muggers. Guess someone didn't think of that aspect in the proposal.

Use number 1

"The girls in the trial are encouraged to use the iPhones as much as possible"

Next weeks headlines.

iPhones removed from pupils due to hormonal teenage girls sending nudy pics to b/f's. Headmaster said to be examing evidence very carefully, before handing over phones.

Schools kids & mobiles...

It's a mobile phone on which kids you can play games... Go figure!!!

On the other had maybe the iPod Touch would be a more suitable device for this trial...