So I&#x27;m curious as to whether these were donated or whether there was some state program which paid for them and if it was the latter, how the heck such a purchase was justified.<p>iPads have the lowest productivity to cost ratio of any computing device - probably up there with video game systems or burning bundles of money in large piles.<p>Even if they were donated, I&#x27;d try to quickly sell them on the market and get cheap traditional computers that can be used to teach real skill.  You can get working used laptops from ebay for $25 a piece with shipping; ~core2 with ~1GB of ram and ~40GB of disk. Perfectly adequate machines.<p>That&#x27;s ~40 computers for the cost of 1 iPad.<p>You could teach everything from how to type and use a word processor to haskell and emacs on any of those.