The St. Paul Android Tablet per Student Project

Apple? Bidding on Android? Some missing details Yuga.

nice idea their St. Paul…
bakit kaya hindi ‘to naisip ng mga top IT schools like STI and AMA?

d kya ito mahirap??? bka my nakawan na mangyayari pg gnyan…hahaha

Interesting. Looking forward to knowing more details about this project as this could be used a ‘benchmark’ for other schools looking to implement the same project.

If its targeted to replace books, why not kindle instead?

Kudos

It sounds interesting… but how many of the textbooks they use are actually digitized? If it’s not then they’d have to digitize the books themselves… or if it is then they probably have to purchase them as well. It looks like it’s going to be a bit more complicated than just putting costs on students’ tuition fees.

e pano kung nanakaw? ma hold up ang student? kawawa naman. di applicable yan sa st. paul. pwede pa sa poveda or ateneo lahat ng students naka car. at least ang textbook di na nanakawin. hehe

i hope the project will be properly planned. kung bibigyan ang mga students ng mga tablet dapat tong mga tablet na to is restricted for educational books lang.

i think this might require customization ng tablet mismo (the program inside the student’s tablet i mean XD).

sigurado may maglalaro ng “angry birds” every class kapag nangyari yan…tsk tsk tsk

without proper implementation and rules it will end up as gaming and surfing device. It comes at no cost for saint Paul it’s so easy for them rather parents are bearing the cost of this experimentation. It is bound to fail. Look at learning point of view what’s is the big deal for high school students? Do all the books for HS used now in the Philippines are available in soft copies? how about copy rights? This is utterly crap and waste o money.

Wow sosyal! dapat blocked lahat ng social networking sites like facebook and twitter para di ma-access ng mga students. Cause for sure yan ang aatupagin nila. hehe. Buti na lang exclusive all girls school ang st paul cause if coed yan sigurado ako yung mga boys puro e-magazines na porn like hustler and playboy lalagay nila sa tablet nila. lol

EPIC FAIL. walang ga-graduate jan pustahan.. XD

aw, yaman nla..!

Mas ok kung Kindle na lang although multi purpose kasi ang tablet.

Kindle kesa tablet.

Price consideration, they should have brought it China made tablets

I’m sure ilang months lang more than half of it sira na. ok sana kung water-proof at shock-proof tulad nito->>http://www.endoacustica.com/blogen/2010/09/20/a-waterproof-and-shockproof-tablet-pc-for-military-use/

Kudos to St. Paul for such an ambitious undertaking.

Oh and if this pushes through, There should be proper support. Aside from teh hardware vendors, there should also be bidding for e-textbooks. It would be stupid to have this when the textbooks required are not available in e-book format. Although it would not be too hard to digitize a paper book. Google DIY book scanner.

*will be a complete success

ang textbook kahit malaglag, matapakan, maupuan, ihagis , mabasa at ibato sayo ng titser magagamit mo pa din….eh ang tablet kya?

they don’t need to program in the nintendo dsi xl since they could make it browser based… everything from books to exams…

damn, i should be in their faculty!

sayng naman taga PUP ako iskolar ng bayan na pulube haha!

grabe baka mag plants vs. zombies at angry birds lng mga estudyante nyan hahahha!

Yey Positive feedback.. i think regarding sa thef. pede naman gawan ng app.. like IOS has MYphone.. na dedetect kung nasan na tablet mo thru gps.. baka in the future may app na will make the unit unusable .. if not return to original owner

This is interesting, and I do hope this project won’t defeat its purpose and be actually a success. Maraming bagay na dapat pag-aralan dito, katulad ng possibility na ito ay maabuso at puro FB na lang at surfing. Pero mas concern ko ang contents nito, saan sila kukuha ng soft copies ng kanilag mga libro? Hindi naman nila pupuwedeng itataype lang dahil baka maviolae nila ang intellectual property rights ng mga publishers. Mayroon akong nakita sa CNET na dual screen tablet na designed for students talaga, meron pa silang partnerships sa maraming publishers I just forgot the name. Please do inform us kung anu yung developments sa project na ito. Just a thought, this would be a good pilot project for students sa mga Science High Schools. :)

Why is everyone against Facebook?, in our school We use Facebook’s Group App in our class to update everyone on our homeworks and coming up school activities.

Nice move, but I think it is kind of sudden though. I love Android tablets yet the battery life of most units still do not last that long yet. Using it as a replacement for books can be quite troublesome in a classroom setting.

What if your tablet runs out of juice in the middle of doing something? I mean, with a lot of students having tablets, charging can be a problem. They may be able to cut down costs on textbooks, but I bet their electric bill would take a hit.

it’s quite easy to block the sites like facebook and multiply, ginagawa yan ng UST. And if you’ve been a student in st. paul, alam mong di customizable yung desktop. It’s to save paper naman, printing notes and whatnot are a staple kaya mamiminimize yun.
The reason why they didn’t use kindle is because ST. Paul doesn’t only use ebooks as their mode of instruction.
Sana na experience ko yan. Makes me wonder kung ano na mangyayari sa iMac room nila.

Project is NOT FINAL yet.

During the Board of Trustees meeting last week, a lot of questions were raised by the members, doubting, most probably the feasibility and relevance of the project.

kudos to spcp! the project is good. and i do hope the project serves its purpose and become a success. although we cant expect that it will have full success on its 1st yr of implementation. we need to be patient on this. but, we need to give the school two-thumbs up for this initiative.

as for the fear of theft – i guess this is not really going to be a problem since most of the students are either riding school bus or private vehicles.

as for the fear of students playing/facebook-ing etc – i think this is not going to be a problem as well esp if the IT can really do its job of blocking these sites. companies (like where i am working right now) have strict blocking mechanisms that prevents its employees to surf the internet. there are only specific websites we can use. in fact, even proxy sites are blocked. so again, this is not going to be a major issue.

i suggest that we keep an open mind and be optimistic about this because if this would be successful, i guess schools like Ateneo, DLSU and others will think of having the same technology as well.

hopefully this would push through. again, kudos to spcp for having this kind of initiative for the betterment of its students!

Pera lang habol niyan kasi kumonti ng 600 estudiante sa St. Paul Pasig sa ilalim ng directress na si Sr. Teresita Baricaua. Maraming programa ginawa yan na walang pahintulot ng mga magulang para lang pagkwartahan sila. Yan directress na iyan ang nag-ambisyon na nangakong gawing wifi zone ang buong St. Paul, nag-tayo ng internet cafe at pingkakalat na ang webpage ng iskwela ay gawa ng Microsoft Philippines nuong ginawa niyang requirement ang Microsoft Vista ang OS sa St. Paul na sa panahong iyon alam na ng lahat na maraming problema… LAHAT PALPAK DAHIL HINDI PINAGAARALAN at pera lang talaga habol. Tanungin niyo ang mga taga St. Paul Pasig… Dapat nga inspeksyonin ng DEPED iyan eh… dami sinisingil kahit sa gitna ng taon hindi naman ginagamit… bawal yon!

Great idea but questions do need to be thoroughly thought through such as:

– Can parents afford this?
In the past, due to the recession, many families defaulted on tuition payment causing the school to prevent seniors from graduating

– Who is responsible for related costs such as repairs, upgrades, maintenance etc?

– where and who can the students turn to 24/7 for tech related issues?

– how will scholars be able to afford this?

– what is the student’s alternative when the “system” goes down (specially when it happens after school hours)?

– theft and loss? – you think that just because it’s an exclusive school, there are zero theft cases inside the campus? (if your answer is yes, which planet do you live in anyways?)

– would students be responsible enough to take care of their own their own androids?

– would students be responsible to use the android for academic purposes only?

– does the philippines even have the capacity and resources to digitize book titles, and be made affordable and accessible to students ?

Books may be more expensive in the long run… but these are new books we are talking about. Students have the alternative to borrow and/ or buy second hand books if their finances are not able to afford new books? How about androids – can the students borrow one from the school and / or get a second hand unit?

as i said there are many questions … the philippines like tech savvy u.s.a.
let’s face it – students do photocopy pages off a book too… can we do that using an android?

typo- the philippines like tech savvy u.s.a

the philippines is unlike the u.s.a which is tech savvy.

their networks WORK and have fast bandwidths plus they have at least 24/7 electricity power (unless there is a big storm or something)

parang nbn zte deal :D

I do hope this project becomes successful. But I still can’t help but think of the ff (similar to some who have expressed their concerns):

– if thieves begin to know about this, they will now start targeting St Paul students (and students from other schools implementing this). Because the chances of bagging a sellable gadget is now higher than before

– will the tablets be ruggedized? drop-proof, waterproof, etc. If it’s not durable and it takes a long time to be repaired (or very costly) kawawa naman ang student at parents lalo na if they have to pay for it.

– might be more expensive in the long run cost you have to pay maintenance cost, electricity cost, ebooks cost, at hindi na kayo pwede maghiraman ng friends or kapatid mo (especially for those na same level different skeds for same subject).

– baka maging tamad na sa manual research ang mga kids, who don’t know how to do research anymore without google.

I guess there are more issues that will need to be analyzed and planned for to make this successful. Hopefully, they are able to iron out everything and they can be a model for other schools locally and abroad…

+1 to P. Anda ^

“Pera lang habol niyan kasi kumonti ng 600 estudiante sa St. Paul Pasig sa ilalim ng directress na si Sr. Teresita Baricaua. Maraming programa ginawa yan na walang pahintulot ng mga magulang para lang pagkwartahan sila. Yan directress na iyan ang nag-ambisyon na nangakong gawing wifi zone ang buong St. Paul, nag-tayo ng internet cafe at pingkakalat na ang webpage ng iskwela ay gawa ng Microsoft Philippines nuong ginawa niyang requirement ang Microsoft Vista ang OS sa St. Paul na sa panahong iyon alam na ng lahat na maraming problema… LAHAT PALPAK DAHIL HINDI PINAGAARALAN at pera lang talaga habol. Tanungin niyo ang mga taga St. Paul Pasig… Dapat nga inspeksyonin ng DEPED iyan eh… dami sinisingil kahit sa gitna ng taon hindi naman ginagamit… bawal yon!”

— THESE ARE ENTIRELY UNFOUNDED AND BASELESS ACCUSATIONS! Tanga ba mga SPCP parents not to react or even file complaints if these were true? Parents in SPCP are HIGHLY educated; i.e., professionals. Andaming lawyer parents sa SPCP…Did the school even receive any complaint? Katabi lang ng SPCP and DepED Central Office. Kung totoo mga accusations ni Leslie, eh di sana matagal nang may nag-complain na parents. Hindi naman yata kasing-tanga ni Leslie mga taga SPCP!

This sounds TERRIBLE. For one thing, you can’t WRITE (as in old school “write”) on these tablets, meaning one of the physical movements that help learning will be taken away. These technological advancements must be studied, discussed, and researched before being made available! I wonder if they REALLY spent time doing those.

I’m sorry, but to me this just sounds like showing off and HAVING expensive stuff (that people don’t need) just for the sake of… well, having them.

I love my alma mater, but when it pulls these stunts (e.g. the gym renovation that took YEARS to finish because there was a lack of funds, aka a lack of proper planning), I get really disappointed.

okay yan at least kahit papano nag eevolve na rin tau sa technology. but…

sana pagaralan nila un pros and cons, like kung matuto talaga un mga bata using the gadget (pero depende din to sa estudyante. ke sa private o sa public kung tamad din mag aral balewala pera ng magulang), availability ng resources at support etc.

anyways, if the parents has money to burn para pambayad dian di go. whatever floats their boat hehe

actually st. paul college pasig announced it in there newspaper and is expecting it to be used next year… they might do a bidding by first week feb 2011… how awesome is that… but it might be optional

Hi, I Agree, I Already Have A Tablet