ipad for teachers and students 2021

 

whether you're a teacher or student the

ipad is the best value for education

and here's why

the ipad

has a reputation as a pretty

expensive luxury item

but i reckon it's the best value for

money teacher tool that there is and it

kind of pains me to say that so okay i

wouldn't go for the

base model ipad but pretty much anything

above the kind of standard 32 gigabyte

storage

you've got apple pencil input gives you

a credible functionality

and just think about all the things that

it can do compared to

any other bit of teacher tech but the

apple pencil makes the ipad an

incredible machine for teachers and

students the more i've used the ipad in

school

the more i've come to think of it as the

best value the best all-round and i've

been looking and reviewing quite a lot

of teacher tech recently so let me know

your thoughts

is this the best value for money do you

have one what do you love to use about

it as well

let me know in the comments below now

i've reviewed quite a few bits of

teacher tech recently

for example a pen display that's around

400 quid

or e-ing tablets which around 500 quid

themselves

and each one of these you'd need to have

a laptop as well

to use it in the classroom whereas the

ipad is the one machine you could

probably get away with doing everything

and still have that excellent note

making capabilities on it and i know my

students have

really liked me using the ipad to make

them sets of notes on the whiteboard and

i can then email them to

them after the lesson so if you're gonna

have to be spending money on a laptop

anyway

perhaps the ipad might just be the

teacher's best friend and maybe it's the

one device

if you're a student that's only gonna

buy one thing

for university or for school it might be

the one device that can do the most

and given that i think it's the best

value it also feels like a really

premium product and they designed the

apple pencil one

to actually roll so that it lands apple

logo

up every single time and that's supposed

to stop it falling off the table

but i still seem to drop it at just

about every single lesson and it's still

working

and i've asked a lot on different

communities like reddit and twitter and

facebook

and people clearly love teaching on

their ipad and the fact that people have

taken the time to write really detailed

comments

should really recommend it to you loads

of people are using it in loads of

different ways

and the base model works with the apple

pencil now so that's 400 quid and you're

ready to go to teach with the ipad now

if you

are a teacher and you're considering

getting an ipad or you've got one then i

recommend goodnotes is the one to go and

the reason for that

is because when you're connected to a

screen goodnotes can just display

the notes not all of the user interfaces

well around it so it goes basically full

screen it's the one

app maybe you know some others but it's

the one app that i've found

that can just display a clean set of

notes as you make them on the whiteboard

in the classroom

and to be honest if you're looking for

something free then the

apple notes app is just as good as

anything and with the latest updates of

ios the note-taking capabilities have

just gone through the roof on this

machine and they're just built in

straight out of the box if you're a

student then i'd probably recommend

notability and coming up i've got a

comparison of those two apps so i

suggest

spend a little bit teachers get good

notes students get notability

notability is great because you can

actually record audio notes on it as

well and it will actually play back the

audio when you click on

the linked bit of text that you've

written great for the lectures

not all rosy though because if you've

got this connected to a display in the

classroom you can't record the screen at

the same time i do wish they'd sort that

out and also the built-in microphone

is not fantastic i can't vouch for the

very latest ones

but i would recommend getting an

external recorder or an external lav mic

to make sure you're getting clean and

crisp audio so it's great for doing

those screen recordings

using the apple pencil but there's a

couple of flaws for example if you are

going to use the built-in microphone

then you're going to hear the tap tap

tap sound of the apple pencil on the

screen and if you are recording sound on

it you'll certainly want to be bringing

the levels up and applying compression

on your audio afterwards to make sure

it's nice and clean and crisp you can

also use

air server linked with a laptop to be

able to

use this kind of untethered from a

screen or you could get an apple tv and

i think even the first generation ones

which would be really cheap now

secondhand and link that to your monitor

in the classroom

and then you can walk around and use

this untethered it's a whiteboard that

you could teach from the back of your

classroom you could even hand the ipad

to a student

to ask them to complete it on the ipad

and show everyone else they're working

loads of cool options like that what i

really like using it for is

building up these class notes and you

can do that in discussion with them

facing them and maintaining eye contact

and my group have really liked

looking over past lessons notes just

flipping back to a few lessons ago

and actually recapping those going

briefly over stuff that you've built up

over time think rosenstein's principles

there let me know if that's something

you want me to discuss in a later video

so in short i wanted to hate the ipad i

wanted to

describe it as an expensive luxury i

wanted to say stick with powerpoint

stick with your computer but the more i

use it the more i look forward to using

a classroom as well and there's

something important about that and it's

not expensive

but it feels really premium so you might

ask can you get the same results with an

android tablet which can be cheaper i

bought one a few years ago and

to be honest i just haven't used it as

much as i thought i was going to

i think the apple pencil is an

incredibly well designed piece of care i

found the android tablet

it's an asus it's a good one but i just

found it to be a little bit unpolished

and since picking up this ipad which is

not the brand new it's not the very

latest one

i've found this feels like somebody has

considered

everything that i will want to do with

it and they've made it

pretty straightforward to do it it feels

like you're always doing stuff

in a way that somebody's designed it to

be done somebody's

given it for before you get to do it and

because of that it kind of really does

feel

like a tool that's tailored to you even

though it's got that kind of lock down

apple mentality could you get the same

thing with a wireless drawing tablet

yes to some extent but you're going to

still be bound to a laptop then although

i think if you get the ipad you're

probably still going to need to use a

school laptop for some things

just like taking the register and all

those information management system

things sims things

i think you'll get away with a lot of

what you need to do in the classroom

with the ipad so the thing is though as

it always is with apple there's a few

tweaks and it'll be perfect give us a

proper presentation mode so we can do a

proper extended desktop

let us just use third-party hdmi

adapters

please they do work but they almost

always need charged and the

official apple one is ridiculously

expensive that being said

i'd probably make that the one that i'd

buy if i were you just to get around all

the quirks

allow us to wirelessly cast to any

monitor rather than having to be an

apple tv

and if you can just allow screen

recording while casting to an external

monitor this

really would be the perfect teaching

machine

and i'd be recommending it to everybody

as the very best all-rounder

as such it's just the best value so let

me know your thoughts do you teach

on an ipad what do you love using about

it and let me know if you've got any

questions things you'd like me to check