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Originally Posted by random50
Typed is an extremely long way from being viable for classes involving non-ascii characters and diagrams. Every student has to take at least *some* classes like that in the US. I don't know how it is in humanities subjects, but in Maths classes, I've not had a single student who types their notes.
There's also the issue of whether these onscreen keyboards are responsive enough to cope with high speed touchtyping and, even if they are, whether that's sufficiently comfortable. I have my doubts.
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Hmm. Here's my prediction. Before the Fall 2010 term, the iPad will have one or more apps which allow notes to be taken in handwritten form, using a stylus. Such an app probably already exists, but this app will allow the student to (1) organize the notes and (2) back them up to the cloud, from whence they can be retrieved to a laptop/desktop & printed. Think Evernotes.
At that point, some enterprising lad or lassie will develop MathNotes (TM) app, which will integrate a scientific calculator with a stylus based notepad, and all the math students (both of them) will demand an iPad.