Ask HN: Should we keep building this cloud managed tablet for the classroom?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4899008
by ricksta • 14 years ago
1 2 14 years ago

We had this vision of a turn-key tablet solution for K-12 educators. We are forking Android to add cloud device management for the teachers to install/remove apps from students device, restrict when students are allowed to play games, and what website students can access. It will also have a school friendly app store that allows the school to purchase app and ebook licenses for all their devices, and push app installs to all of their tablets through the cloud.

After doing some research, some schools who rolled out tablets to their students allowed their students to manage their own devices. They decided to educate the students on whats appropriate rather than restricting their tablets.

Now we are not sure if we are solving the right problem any want to manage their students' tablets. HN, what do you think?

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