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$\"\"$ The iPad 3<\/a> has been mentioned on surprisingly few blogs I read regularly or subscribe to<\/a>. When the iPad 2 came out, there was more buzz among educators. Perhaps it is simply the fact that whether educators could afford to upgrade to iPad 2 (or use university funds to get one), or could not afford to upgrade to the then new, now old iPad 2, none of us can afford to get an iPad 3.<\/p>\n

But presumably if we felt that the improvements were pedagogically<\/em> essential, or crucial to our scholarship, or both, then we might feel differently.<\/p>\n

The inclusion of a better camera is a plus \u2013 but for the purpose of taking photos so that I can blog while traveling with students, better quality photos doesn\u2019t matter so much, since photos in a blog post are rarely of very high resolution, and uploading high definition images or video would be expensive.<\/p>\n

The retina display \u2013 i.e. a display whose pixels are so small the human eye supposedly doesn\u2019t discern any pixelation \u2013 sounds wonderful, but at best a luxury. It may make viewing a video on the relatively small iPad screen that little bit more pleasant, but it won\u2019t enhance my enjoyment of Words With Friends in any obvious way.<\/p>\n

None of the features of the iPad 3 that I have seen mentioned on the Apple web site<\/a> or elsewhere seem essential, much less pedagogically or professionally essential.<\/p>\n

Am I missing something? The iPad 3 is better, but is it better in the way that a larger flat screen TV is \u2013 nice if one can afford it, but something one can easily live without?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m still waiting for full-fledged word processing software for the iPad that will allow one to create footnotes, at the very least. \u00a0Has such a thing appeared, and I\u2019ve missed it? Or has everyone just agreed that the use of footnotes will be phased out to accommodate the technology academics now work with?<\/p>\n

At any rate, the main reason I felt it essential to mention the iPad 3 is explained most clearly in an important article, to which I will simply link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And of course, with the solar flare activity headed our way, none of our iPads may work anyway, come tomorrow<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"