Emerged Technology in Education
The iPad is an emerging technology in the area of education in the last couple of years. Teacher and students are utilizing the various educational app to enhance their classrooms. It hasn't become a mature technology because the iPad devices are very expensive. Schools are in the process of adopting the iPad. One challenge is the cost of iPads for the schools and another is they are very fragile. The iPad meets societal needs by allows people to have a mini portable computer, in which they can access the internet via wifi and or a data plan. It benefits society by allowing people access to the internet without being confined to a particular location. The Apple Company can improve the iPad by creating an usb port and an expandable storage ports such as micro card. If the iPad storage features were similar to laptops and desktop computers school may be able to afford the devices. Schools would just replace the laptops with iPads.
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-10-24/the-ipad-goes-to-school-the-rise-of-educational-tablets
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/12/131210-ipad-learning-education-space-science/
Ipads are a great example of an emerging technology. My school has purchased forty ipads so that each math teacher could have 5 ipads. This was a great addition to our math classrooms. You make a strong point about the cost of this technology. Our administrators plan to provide all classrooms with ipads but that will be an ongoing process due to the high cost of this technology.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your assessment of reasons that it has not emerged to full maturity: cost and fragility.
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