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Amplify Education's New Intel Tablet Begs For Abuse

Posted by timothy on from the it-was-askin'-for-it dept.

theodp writes "Bring it on, suggests the video for The Amplify Tablet, an Intel device (specs) developed for Rupert Murdoch's Amplify Education, which shows kids wrestling with, dropping, and even splashing the device. So is a ruggedized 10.1" device, which appears to be Amplify's answer to earlier fragility problems, the future of high-tech education? Or is go-big-or-go-home with a 27" touch screen the way to go, perhaps in some kind of next-gen-flip-top-school-desk? Or — cost be damned — are separate classroom and home devices what are really needed?"

10 of 33 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Why all the books and backpack.... by Joe_Dragon · · Score: 2

    It's school so they do stuff ass backwards

  2. Toughness is good by invictusvoyd · · Score: 2

    Yesterday my girl spilled juice over my notebook keyboard. And being the person I am , I have a certain emotional attachment to my hardware. Thank heavens the machine is ok . Durability is something which IMHO has to be incorporated in notebooks. In terms of ruggedised hardware and in terms of software .. good OS's ( read Linux ) .

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  3. Re:Why all the books and backpack.... by Opportunist · · Score: 2

    So school DOES prepare for work, after all!

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  4. Re:Yes yes! What a startling innovation! by gIobaljustin · · Score: 2

    People are as dumb now as they were in the past. Useless test scores and other such trivialities don't change that fact.

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  5. Re:Why all the books and backpack.... by houstonbofh · · Score: 3, Interesting

    But a tablet will fix everything! Especially those poor children with level two lookalike firearms! (Fingers...) http://www.dispatch.com/conten...

    Seriosly, technology is not the problem...

  6. Rupert Murdoch? by PvtVoid · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The last person on the planet I want to have supplying curriculum to children is Rupert Murdoch. He's a one-man ignorance machine.

  7. Murdoch!!! by beermad · · Score: 2

    I'm glad I don't have kids. I'd hate them to be exposed at school to anything associated with that vile dingo. There's certainly going to be an ulterior motive behind it.

  8. This leed makes the assumption by xombo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That these devices are necessary to begin with.

  9. other alternatives by kevlar_rat · · Score: 2

    There are a number of options, as well as http://soylentnews.org/ there is http://pipedot.org./ There are a lot of ex-slashdotter on the comp.misc newsgroup. http://squte.com/ (my own site) provides a slashdot-like interface to newsgroups.

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  10. Oh, yeah, THAT will work by PapayaSF · · Score: 2

    "Here are your new tablets, kids. They're ruggedized so that they resist breaking!"

    *CRACK!*

    "Now, Tommy, why did you do that? Of course smashing it against the desk will break it!"

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