“Using Apple TV in a lesson is FANTASIC!” Simon Haughton, a primary school ICT manager in the UK, blogs.
“Having read about it online I sort of knew what to expect but it was only when I actually tried it out in a lesson did I realise the huge impact that it has on teaching and learning:,” Haughton writes. “When I used it in Year 4 on Friday, the children were that impressed by the whole setup that they even asked me to mirror the iPad screen of one of the more confident children for a short while so that they could watch the process they did to create such super work.”
Read more in the full article here.
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Apple will change the face of education for the better – so long as backwards school boards stay out of the way.
Fat chance
*sigh* yeah… 🙁
The impact will be positive. It will follow the culture Apple started 30 years ago. Dell screwed it up by selling crap to the school system across the country. Apple is back better then ever. It’s called the iPad.
When I was selling for Apple, we called DELL “Destroying Education Little by Little”
Without a high speed and reliable connection it is kinda crappy to be honest. I’m a huge Apple fan, but this doesn’t hit the mark.
The lack of storage means it is impossible to download and then stream a movie, instead we are forced to view it streaming.
Why can’t manufacturers allow us to rent a movie and select the option to download the whole thing to its internal drive, deleting it after we have viewed it.
Mine has had such little use since we bought it that in invariably needs its software updating every time we use it, further frustrating us.
Our internet is 10Mbs down and 2Mbs up, rural WiFi. Sometimes we get that, occasionally the speed may drop much slower than that for a few seconds or a couple of minutes. Streaming movies stopping at cliffhangers is no fun.
This has nothing to do with the iPad; either pay for a modern Internet connection or move out of the trailer park.
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Make sure your connection is good. Yes it may be 10Mbs from your service provider, but it may not be 10Mbs from your wifi box to your Apple TV. So many times I have blamed things on various pieces of hardware when it was a connection problem all along. My service is same as yours and I have no problems….even watching HD, and Standard is of course OK too. BUT I do have the latest Apple TV and I always update the SW when one is available.
Another thing you might try is resetting your Apple TV (PRESS the “down/bottom” part of the wheel AND left side button at the same time …..keep them pressed till it resets). Don’t do the RESET under SETTINGS. Just do the manual one I describe above. It takes 1 minute at the most…probably 30 sec.
I just download to iTunes on my Mac and stream from there to my Apple TV at my convenience.
——RM
You really dont know much about the apple tv do you for having one. When you rent a movie it downloads the entire movie to the apple tv. Into the 8 gigs of flash memory on the device. you then have 1 month to watch it at your leisure and once you start the movie 24 hours to finish it.
In fact if you like was said above rent it and download it to your computer when you stream it to your apple tv it still doesnt really stream it. It puts it into the same 8 gig of flash memory on the apple tv and then you watch it. You can wait till the full movie is in your apple tv or watch it as it transfers to its memory.
Yes backwards and bloated with unnecessary bureaucracy and staff, ballooning school budgets without any tangible educational benefit. Teachers and students is a basic concept. And the education system isn’t about securing the retirement of teachers or keeping bad teachers on as it is about educating our young people. The focus should always be the kids getting the best education possible with the best tools available.
F**k the children!
Apple TV requires reduction of network Wi-Fi security. Districts are mandated to protect students. If Apple TV comes in the way of that mandate, then it’s useless technology and short sightedness on the part of the designers.
Don’t blame the schools of they don’t use the technology.
Bogus argument.
1. The Apple TV does not (for the lack of a better word), “WRITE” to the wifi network. It is essentially a LISTENING ONLY device for the WI-FI.
2. Or were you maybe thinking that students might use it to view offensive material? In which case you would be incorrect again. The Apple TV would not be student controlled device….it would be a teacher controlled device on par with, lets see now…..a VCR or a DVD player. If you are concerned students might watch porn/violence on the Apple TV…..well then you should be concerned that they can do that on the DVD and VCRs in schools today.
‘Apple TV requires reduction of network Wi-Fi security. Districts are mandated to protect students. If Apple TV comes in the way of that mandate, then it’s useless technology and short sightedness on the part of the designers.’
WTF. why do the trolls come here to post their misinformed rubbish, using ‘big sounding’ words like mandated and trying to come off as informed? As if folks here can’t see through the crap they come up with. Are you lost?
Yeah, we believe you…Macs can’t do the internet, they’re just toys….
Idiot with no clue.
@danilko1,
Bullshit, you have no clue at all, and then we see another Troll coming to post nothing at all, just trying to make up a problem where none exist.
Another has-been from the world of hate anything Apple, let’s just make something up cause we can ……
Since Apple has been finally getting the credit it deserves for inovating, we have all these uneducated amateur propagandists waiting in the wings to pull a 360 make up anything to belittle Apple Bullshit-Fest.
The apple tv does not reduce network wifi security you are sadly misinformed. The from the first gen to the third gen atv they all use wpa2 and all of the latest security protocols. Also you can password protect and lock any of the services on it so that unauthorized people cannot use purchasing accounts.
Not to mention the fact that your district ip manager can stop unauthorized use of the device by ip logging your ports or mac hardware identification of any given device including an apple tv.
I don’t get it, a computer is a computer. Why do you want me to spend valuable education funding on this toy? Brian, the IT guy says that you can do everything an iPad can do on the Dell laptop that we currently have, and more. What is wrong with those? They are only 6 years old and if we don’t buy an iPad we will save $10 per child. Ten dollars!
Impressive, but you need to conceal your costs in multiples. For instance your $10 savings, while admirable cost cutting will sound paltry to the residents of the school system (those that have school age children we are supposed to be educating anyway)
Try this; if you have, for arguments sake, 10,000 students in your system always multiply that $10 savings for a much more impressive savings of $100,000.00 (and always add the pennies, it make the line of zero’s all the more impressive.)
And to be even more impressive, subtract the IT maintenance of those Dells….Ooops, where did all those savings run off to…?
Because…
1. Brian is an idiot who wants to keep his job
2. The boot up time for those dells is greater than the attention span for any kid
3. when have you seen kids touching and manipulating the objects on a dell with their fingers….a more intuitive “get the technology out of my face approach”.
4. Imagine asking a six year old to “go to folder ‘X’ and double click on the exe file…and oh sometimes you have to hold down the option key while it is launching” rather than telling them to just touching the icon that looks like “whatever”.
Because the “toy” (Apple TV) brings wireless screen sharing from the mac and iPad to the classroom presentation system. It allows the teacher to move around the room during the presentation/lesson and directly interact and engage kids simultaneously. This is an improvement over the stand at the wired lectern and deliver the lesson. The informality and motion leads to creativity and more engaging interaction, instead of daydreaming and being distracted while you get a boring lecture.
This is true. On a typical enterprise scale network at least 2 of the 4 ports the iPad needs in order to AirPlay to the ATVhave to be opened. I have yet to be able to convince our network admin to reconfigure the network to allow AirPlay.
Once I get that capability, AirPlay will be a game changer for us.
Just build an adhoc network at your local machine, put both the AppleTV and the iPad on it and be done.
Fire his incompetent ass.
he is obviously in fear of losing his job. just wants you to think his job is soooooo important.
There are ways to do this. We’re just starting our implementation here. One option is the Aerohive Bonjour Gateway. Google it, it might help your cause.
Someone (clearly more senior in position than you) needs to march down and remind IT that they exist to support the needs and mission of the org. There is no good reason the ports should be blocked on internal connection either.
In the meantime, just setup an ad-hoc network and work around the losers.
Last dipshit IT guy that pissed me off had my coffee accidentally spilled on his laptop, when I tripped coming to see him.
The local school board has spent millions of dollars equipping each and every classroom with an active board, a digital chalkboard. Of course they all run Windows, which seems like a missed opportunity for Apple to me.