[Offtopic] Ipads

[Paul Chandler]

>
>
> 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).
>

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.

-- 
Dr Paul Chandler
Research Fellow: Multimedia grammatical design and authoring pedagogy
(Kahootz) project,
School of Education, University of New England
(Project website: http://www.une.edu.au/kahootzresearch)

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