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Originally Posted by JSWolf
And the teacher has every right to fail the student when the student cannot properly do the work. When the teacher says to read pages xx-yy and the student has no clue or when the student has to do a term paper and cannot properly cite.
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Jon:
You know I am right fond of you, but you are being obstreperous. No teacher in any institution can FORCE a kid who can't afford it to go buy an iPad, or a tablet, or, or or. That's just...absurdist. What, some instructor is going to tell a kid, whose family is using foodstamps, that he HAS TO go buy a certain type of tablet, etc., or he will be failed? That's just not realistic. Yes, I know, when we were in school we had to buy our books--but you could find used copies that you could afford. The same may well not be true of used devices.
I do think you're reaching a bit. After all--if an instructor could do that, why not have them all buy iPads and use iBooks? Why not make them buy full-fledged laptops, or an entire networked computer system? Where does that power stop, then?
Hitch