With the announcement of iOS 5 at WWDC earlier this month, people got a view of what they can expect from Apple’s new mobile operating system. Features like AirPlay and iCloud have appealed to many, but Matthew Panzarino looked to Frasier Speirs, the Head of IT at Cedars School of Excellence in Greenock, Scotland to get an educator’s view on the operating system.

While I still don’t think we can (or would want to) give younger children accounts, the ability to back up and sync an iPad wirelessly to iTunes means that we would no longer need a computer in every Primary classroom. One large-ish computer on the network running iTunes could theoretically serve as the backup machine for an entire Primary department’s iPads – with no intervention from the teacher. Huge win

An educator’s thoughts on using iOS 5 features in an iPad classroom | TNW