| Title Page | Introduction | Description | Potential Benefits | Legal and Ethical Issues | Conclusion | Bibliography |
Potential Benefits
The iPad 3's new improvements satisfy the student, the businessman or the every day person. One of the iPad 3's improvements is an extensive media library, students and business workers can use this media library to access applications. These applications can be used for both work and fun.
iPad's have been become popular with college students, they use them for their classes and fun. Ann Kirschner wrote an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education that states that there is a note-taking application called "Pentultimate" that conveniently lets you take notes and save them to your iPad (2010). Avid iPad users take advantage of the applications that can improve their efficiency in the office and in the classroom.
There are applications built into the new iPad such as iLife and the iWork, Pages, Keynote, and Numbers and have all been updated to take advantage of the new iPad Retina display (Apple Launches new iPad, 2012). These applications are similar to Microsoft Word programs but are catered to enhance the new iPad display. These applications would help students in their classes and business workers in many ways. For example, preparing to presenting proposal.
In a journal article by Barbara McClanahan, Kristen Williams, Ed Kennedy, and Susan Tate, they introduce how the iPad could be implemented to help facilitate learning at young ages.
"In the few months since the release of the iPad, school districts from California to Virginia have adopted it to meet educational purposes, especially to enhanced, interactive textbook access" (2010).
Using iPads as electronic textbooks can engage the students and help them focus on reading and learning. Barbara Ludlow, editor of Teaching Exceptional Children thinks iPads are the future of "one-to-one educational delivery" (2010).
For the businessman, Jeff Drew says that the "iPad is good for tasks such as reading PDFs, reviewing financial statements, going over material with clients at meetings, sending email and synchronizing Microsoft Outlook through services such as Microsoft Exchange" (2011). Having the portable iPad in your office can help you communicate with co-workers at your convenience without being hunched over a computer screen.
Lastly, iPads have are also enhanced to help stimulate the economy. Steve Jobs creates new versions of the iPad to transform media in every aspect of people's lives. The authors of The Economists journal believe that the iPad could create a shift towards digital content for newspaper and magazine editors as well as e-books. In hopes to create tablets as being the 21st century's version of the "printed page" (Business: Steve Jobs and the tablet of hope; Apple unveils the iPad, 2010).
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