On Thursday, Apple unveiled its plan to remake the education system, with the reformed one revolving around its tablet computer, the iPad. Apple’s senior vice president of marketing, Philip Schiller, made a statement saying “Education is deep in Apple’s DNA and iPad may be our most exciting education product yet”. 

The benefits of having iPads in schools are obvious. Firstly, it would help save the environment as it would reduce the use of paper in schools, with the iPad having a free app called iBooks Author, which lets anyone create a digital and interactive textbook. The new iTunes U will allow anyone, anywhere, at any time to take courses for free, and is available for free on Thursday. Furthermore, it enables students and teachers to read, write, plan classes and communicate with each other. 

With all the resources, including textbooks, on the iPad, students of the future would simply be able to take their iPad and lunch to school, without needing anything else. Although this idea can be criticized as it would obviously deteriorate student’s writing skills, but one could question that writing is a dated skill that will eventually be irrelevant. 

This all makes perfect sense, although the high price tag of iPad’s can easily be enough to make people question whether the plan would work, especially considering the recent government cuts and the high rates of deprived children. 

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