<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word;"><br><div>I think to truly drive the pedagogical change you can envisage these devices creating, they need to be the 3G version and GPS enabled - many schools are hamstringing any developments by locking them to their wireless infrastructure (due to cost).<br clear="all">
</div></div></blockquote></div><br>I often find myself wondering what the difference would really be if a school provided each student with a netbook, 3G modem and some credit and did away with the large proportion of their LAN infrastructure. I rather suspect that the cost differential wouldn't be very much.<br>
<br>-- <br>Dr Paul Chandler<br>Research Fellow: Multimedia grammatical design and authoring pedagogy (Kahootz) project,<br>School of Education, University of New England<br>(Project website: <a href="http://www.une.edu.au/kahootzresearch" target="_blank">http://www.une.edu.au/kahootzresearch</a>)<br>
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