Does your college student use or need an iPad?

[Anonymous]

Ours uses iPad for note taking all the time. Lots of teachers teach from slides and it is easy to annotate the slides with the iPad and pencil.

[Anonymous]

No

[Anonymous]

Yes. Many college students prefer to take notes on tablets

[Anonymous]

My kid uses the iPad for watching TV/streaming content while lying in bed

[Anonymous]

No Mac with Microsoft Office Suite. Business and Data Analytics student.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In my experience, GenZ doesn’t use iPads. I love mine, but it’s very much a tool of the olds (and small children, I guess).

False. Ipads are great for taking notes, doing problem sets, creating study guides for exams. Our student uses one in addition to his laptop.

+1 my kid does all notes on IPad w/Apple Pencil Pro sends to the cloud and syncs them to the mac book. Able to share notes with classmates etc. He's a bio-chem/Econ double major so has to write tons of formulas, works perfectly.

[Anonymous]

I'm assuming your kid will be a Freshman? I wouldn't buy one right now but wait and see if it's needed after a few months/semester.

Both my kids use one and asked for one after being at school for a while. It will vary by major and classes. For some it will be useful, for others not so much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ours uses iPad for note taking all the time. Lots of teachers teach from slides and it is easy to annotate the slides with the iPad and pencil.

^This. Prof here—I post my slides before class, and several students (not all or even most) use tablets to annotate, though they usually also have a laptop.

[Anonymous]

I teach higher ed. I currently have two students who use tablets (both are international students). The rest are on laptops - 90% of which are Apple products based on the logos I can see!

There are a lot of software programs for note taking etc.

[Anonymous]

Yes, for note taking, use their Mac for most other things.

[Anonymous]

My music major uses an iPad Pro, but I think it's just a very expensive way to organize his music for various ensembles/studio teachers. He writes his papers on his laptop. Not sure what he uses for notes.

[Anonymous]

Yes my kid uses her iPad to take notes when allowed. She does of course also have a laptop.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes my kid uses her iPad to take notes when allowed. She does of course also have a laptop.

+1 Got the iPad for a study abroad trip to cut down on weight and bulk. Still uses it now in combo with laptop.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know we need to get our kid a laptop, but would an iPad also be helpful? Do kids take laptops to class or would the iPad be better for that?

parent of Engineering student at an ivy: the engineers and other stem majors use ipad with stylus for note taking as it is better for formula writing and diagrams(ie orgo) per DC. They also have a Mac Air that the school suggested. About 1/3 picked the PC the school suggested, 2/3 picked the Mac, and most have an iPad and stylus in addition. No one uses the iPad as the sole device.

[Anonymous]

No

Device choice has largely been personal preference in our kids' experiences at 3 different colleges. None of our have used iPads. Some of their friends do. (Per above comment, neither did our engineering student. Again, personal preference.)