Last year, the Unified School District of Los Angeles planned to ensure that all pupils iPad by the end of 2014. In the first phase the unit were to receive 31 000 students, while the total number of tablets made by the end of the program to 640,000 pieces. But now the management of schools in Los Angeles made adjustments and suspended a contract with Apple.
Prisoner about a year ago, a contract worth $ 1 billion was to provide California students an iPad with special training programs. Nevertheless, this program will affect only 27 high schools (grades 9-12). Contracts will enable institutions to purchase the selected devices in the amount of not more than $ 40 million.
But the question with devices that are more interesting. Instead of buying an iPad, it was decided to conduct the testing, which will be held in the fall. They will involve a number of different mobile devices, and each university will choose a specific device, which will be purchased in the required quantities. In testing will involve both teachers and, of course, students.
Among the proposed schools devices present conventional laptops with small screens, tablets Surface Pro 2, Lenovo Yoga and Chromebooks. As for the program, which was attended by iPad, its implementation has encountered some "pitfalls". In particular, in the beginning of the school season 2013 students bypassed the security protocol, which prevented the use of the tablet for entertainment purposes, and access to social networks and other websites blocked in educational plates.
According to the students, nothing complicated in their method did not: they simply remove installed in iOS profile, then on a clean system can go anywhere. They write on Facebook and Twitter, listen to music via Pandora, play games from App Store. Only one city school procedure "hacking" in a few days carried around 300 students. Students spread the instructions to bypass the restrictions on the iPad in social networks, which provoked a new wave of "break-ins", including in other schools.