I read another blogger today saying the Apple’s tablet is not as important as the content and then going on about the new media subscription platforms that may appear with the iTablet to be announced tomorrow. However, I believe Apple’s intrinsic contribution of value is beyond even their innovative approach to content delivery.
Apple’s real contribution to the world of technology is » More: Apple’s Contribution is More than Content and Devices
Why will the highly anticipated Apple tablet – suspected to be called iSlate – transform the brick and mortar classroom as well as the way teachers interact with students? Will learning be affected? Will learning improve? Will the improvement be worth the investment of time and money required to adopt and adapt to the new technologies with which we will shortly collide?
Those who resist the forthcoming changes will find it difficult to adapt and adopt. Those who embrace the changes will discover new opportunities to engage and learn both individually and collaboratively. Society always merges with its adopted technologies. The coming innovations are reflective of our desire to » More: Apple Tablet iSlate will have Transformative Effect on Education, Teaching, & Learning…
Apple’s iPhone/iTouch/iTunes ecosystem “may prove to be the fastest ramping and most disruptive technology product / service launch the world has ever seen
Perhaps the most remarkable statement in the report is that the Mobile Internet market will be “at least 2x size of Desktop Internet,” which Morgan Stanley bases on analysis comparing Internet users with mobile subscribers.
Combine these reports with this week’s headlines that Africa has the highest per capita concentration of cell phones (surprise), and we can easily see where education is heading (or at least where it ‘needs’ to head).
The next generation is mobile. Education must be available to this mobile generation. Textbooks will be electronified NOT simply because it’s green and saves trees. It’s about delivery to the mobile masses. KurzweilAI.com announced it’s own e-book breakthrough this past week. It is open source and platform transforming rather than device-centric .
Educators, above all, should be able to think beyond the linear, boxed-in paradigms up which it has rested for decades, and take advantage of the new mobile platforms before us. It seems unfortunate that rather than switch, the behemoth institution would rather fight to retain their hierarchical position that is trending inevitably toward extinction.
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