The iPad for Academics at Inside Higher Ed.
Posted by Celia Walter | 26 Jul, 2010Alex Golub, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, shares his views on The iPad for Academics at Inside Higher Ed.
“Teachers and students have always been an important market for Apple — a fact made clear by the tremendous amount of spit and polish that went into the new education website the company recently unveiled. But honestly: What do Apple’s slickly produced promo videos of adorable multicultural elementary schoolers have to do with us? And just how relevant is their newly-released iPad for what we do? Do academics really need to shell out five hundred bucks for what is essentially a big iPod touch?”