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The iPad however, provides an alternative method by providing a lower cost of entry, while allowing for student-centered instruction where students are able to both create content and access information anywhere, anytime.  The key for revolutionizing education is having educators who embrace this technology to change how they teach to create a learning environment where students, not teachers, are the focus of the instruction.   

“Yeah it does all that and it’s a phone!”  Amidst a cacophony of reverent Oooh’s and Ahh’s, I unknowingly witnessed the birth of the Smart-Phone and the death knell of the PDA.  I bring this up because I recently was approached by someone who told me that our school should get rid of all PC’s and give everyone iPads.

but the tablet format could lead to changes in education.

The iPad's video capture feature will allow teachers to join the movement by pre-recording their lectures as homework the day before a new classroom topic.

the development of advanced artificial intelligence, or superintelligence, opens up doors to discoveries never before imagined.

successful teachers are like Emily Vail: the ones who don’t revolutionize their pedagogical methods overnight