Tablets are here, and they are going to change school life, either by parents who can afford it, or by schools who take the plunge. With companies like Apple, McGraw Hill, and other technology heavyweights pushing heavily for innovative ways to introduce digital technology in classrooms, it's only a matter of time before tablets are in every school and have replaced the old fashioned textbooks.
Tablets Will be MONEY-SAVERS:
America spends about 7 Billion Dollars on text-books per year, out of which several are out of date or will become out of date shortly. With the Tablets prices sure to go down for schools and colleges, which will obviously buy in bulk, it could result in a total of 3 Billion Dollars in savings.
Tablets Improve Learning??
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt tested an interactive, digital version of an Algebra 1 textbook for Apple’s iPad in California’s Riverside Unified School District. Students who used the iPad version scored 20 percent higher on standardized tests versus students who learned with traditional textbooks. The program, which replaced worn textbooks with interactive, digital versions with video, graphics and built-in quizzes that invited students to participate and give instant feedback, spurred positive comments that students using the iPad version were “more motivated, attentive, and engaged” than those with the paper algebra books.
Tablets Will be MONEY-SAVERS:
America spends about 7 Billion Dollars on text-books per year, out of which several are out of date or will become out of date shortly. With the Tablets prices sure to go down for schools and colleges, which will obviously buy in bulk, it could result in a total of 3 Billion Dollars in savings.
Tablets Improve Learning??
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt tested an interactive, digital version of an Algebra 1 textbook for Apple’s iPad in California’s Riverside Unified School District. Students who used the iPad version scored 20 percent higher on standardized tests versus students who learned with traditional textbooks. The program, which replaced worn textbooks with interactive, digital versions with video, graphics and built-in quizzes that invited students to participate and give instant feedback, spurred positive comments that students using the iPad version were “more motivated, attentive, and engaged” than those with the paper algebra books.
Although it may not necessarily be true for all subjects and individuals, further research and innovation will only increase a students grasping of the subject. By providing interactive ways of learning, mind games, progress meters and a host of other features, tablets are taking over the education world by storm.
The Best Educational Only Tablets At This Moment:
1) Kineo Tablet:
The Kineo Tablet is an 8-inch 1.3 GHz dual-core tablet aimed at schools that starts at $299. It comes from a company, Brainchild, that has been around in the educational space for two decades. According to Tim Kimbrell, a rep at Brainchild, it actually developed the first portable tutoring device back in 1993.
2) Intel Study-book:
The StudyBook will start for less than $200, a price point aimed not at besting the iPad but at competing with the One Laptop Per Child project for the hearts and minds of, not parents, but schools, especially those in the Third World.
India too, has its own tablet, in the form of the Aakash Tablet, and we are also running the race for manufacturing these wonderful tablets to benefit the lives of the Indian Youth. Tablets will take over, it is just a matter of when.
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