When I arrived the office this morning, I received an Email that noticed a meeting on the education of the IPAD use effect share will take at 10 o ‘clock, discussion started I rushed out and catch up with the two researchers report after, some notes, here to share the results.
Due to missed beginning, I don’t know the project background, but from April IPAD public, August began to explore the IPAD students use effect to see, schools or pretty value the research, at least every participants get a free IPAD, so that investigation IPAD relative to other hardware the use effect of media.
Unfortunately, the study of the content is social fields, such as public relations, design and law, so not much I can reference technology or engineering education results. But from a heap of parameters, can be found in an IPAD students before and after a semester of attitude change. Normally, we pay more attention to the function of the IPAD table, took it as a Kindle, but statistics show that the students to use the IPAD, through a little after reading, but only surf the Internet (short-term reading). Check Email and the Internet is the main functions of the IPAD, basic unchanged. As the game platform with in fluent use increased, and after music platform, function, and survey engagements, social function, flat keep reading functions than is expected to be low, see the function of online video also fallen. Also found that the students first videos, probably the iTunes U is of guiding teacher for media, followed by Youtube. So the IPAD bring the biggest Email and Internet, it is convenient for this with the function of smart phones to overlap.
I also found that the original Mac users, compared to Ipad habit, and 93% ~ 100% said yes, and the original PC users, only 70% ~ 76% say yes. It seems the user’s habits will not easily eliminate, the people to new technology has a lot of inertia or inert.
For public relations professional, the students use the IPAD to see the video,but may be it need a DVD to iPad converter. mainly for mobile platform, Apps is convenient, easy to organizations and sharing, with other members of the communication and cooperation, etc. To design major, the students as the main technology platform or professional development necessary tools, think that this is the development of the career necessary means, at the same time maintain online community is also important function. Lawyer, emphasize on professional independent thinking and prevent leak or litigation, so don’t like social function, but the information immediately interested in this.
According to the students’ feedback, IPAD, need to put more work, more time and more effort, it’s because of the teachers to test the effect of the increase of extra work them. Generally speaking, if there is a fixed the answer of tests, student performance (have), but for IPAD almost no fixed the answer, the group bought the performance of students a lot better, because share more convenient.
Education effect, can be divided into Mr (for), AD spend), Community (files), Identity (Becoming). As a means of acquiring knowledge, IPAD and the traditional PC almost, but in practice and interactive learning, IPAD group have an advantage, advantage comes from Mobility (Mobility) and the Access (Instant availability), because PC boot need to wait, and IPAD use this Instant boot, availability, is to use the main reason for the IPAD a creative.
emilyjery works as a web developer and an editor of a weekly technology magazine. he has published numerous articles to provide readers reliable information about technology products : PPT to video and PPT to flash and hot technology events around the world.
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