Does a kid need an iPad for school?

If you have a 4 year old child and he will be starting kindergarten next year. Should you buy him an iPad so he can stay on top of his papers and assignments? Will the school's IT dept. make sure he can connect to the school's wifi hot-spot or will you have to set it up yourself? If you plan to keep in touch with him during the day via Twitter.

There are some views of my friends
"Things may have changed a lot since my experiences with kindergarten, but any "papers" or "assignments" at this grade level should not require an iPad, or any individual child to have a computer of any kind. Kindergarten is also a time for children to learn socialization with their class and begin independence from their parents, so I recommend not trying to contact him throughout the day, even if he does in fact enjoy Twitter. This is not a habit you want him to develop in school. I think he'll be learning how to read, write, share, and develop friendships." Johnny said.

Steven said "No freaking 4 year old needs a freaking iPad. A 4 year old doesn't HAVE a ton of homework. They don't really DO anything in kindergarten ANYWAY. Why give your kid something that takes a lot of responsibility when he's only four? If he breaks that thing, you would be in major trouble. Just forget about the iPad. Buy him a notebook or something and a cool little pen. That's all he needs. Period. You don't want to spoil him now."

Maybe you have your idea,but I want to say,everything has its two sides,you can make your decision depends on the conditions around your child!

The diffrences between new iPad and iPad 2

The main differences between the iPad 2 and New iPad is that the NewiPad has a Retina Display (high definition) screen and a 5 megapixelcamera on the back, and the iPad 2 has a standard quality screen and a VGA camera on the back, which isn't even 1 megapixel. So if you're planning on taking professional looking pictures (and if you want a higher def screen), get the newer one.

Retina display
The Retina display looks gorgeous. The screen has a 264 pixels per inch. That's a total 3.1 million pixels in a full color IPS screen. The image color seems a lot better too. They say it has 44 percent more saturation than the IPS technology they were using previously.

Apple claims that it is still a Retina display because, when you held it at a normal distance, you just can't see the pixels. That distance is 15 inches. For the iPhone, which has a smaller screen, it is 10 inches. I can't wait to test this thing with all my comics (I wonder if Marvel will have to upload them all again).



They demonstrated it running a new version of Autodesk Sketchbook Ink, a new painting app that is vector-based and resolution independent. It actually seems like you are painting on a real page.

Processor and graphics power
The processor is an Apple-designed A5X, which includes a quad-core graphics module. It's going to need all the graphics muscle if it has to push those 3.1 million pixels.According to Apple, it's twice as fast as a Tegra 3 and has "four times" the graphics performance. Hot damn.

1080p video recording
The rear camera, which Apple calls the iSight Camera (the front-facing one is the facetime camera), is capable of capturing 1080p video at 30 frames per second, which obviously looks razor sharp on the iPad's display. The video, like the iPhone 4S, is also stabilized.

Apple says it has temporal noise reduction, which is a rather clever technique that greatly reduces the noise of video by comparing what pixels actually move and guessing what is noise and what is actual detail.

New camera
The new iPad has a new camera on the back: has a 5-megapixel job with a side-iluminated sensor, a 5-element lens and an infrared filter. It's basically the same configuration as on the iPhone 4S, with three fewer megapixels. Serious specs for a tablet camera—you can expect to see more people carrying around iPads taking pictures of things. And Apple also left the VGA FaceTime camera in the front. Great.