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The fact that you can hold it up to your face makes a tablet the best device available for reading, web browsing and consuming media.  It has all of the functions of a PC in a smaller package. 

The ability for students to send their work to their personal email accounts or cloud drives, just like on a school computer, is another huge advantage.

How much longer can we ignore the extremely powerful tools that are driving so much learning outside our schools? How can we be locked in pedagogical denial of the same tools that we use in our everyday lives?

Technology is the driving force behind most of the education innovation. It is impacting not only what we can do as educators, but it is also changing how we approach learning. These innovations may have not all reached the education journals yet, but they have been presented and are being discussed digitally and at great length in social media.

Information from technology may be easily accessed, but it is not yet a passive exercise. It requires effort and an ability to learn and adapt. These are skills that all educators have, but many may not always be willing to use. The status quo has not required educators to use these skills in a long time. Using these skills requires effort and leaving a long-standing zone of comfort in order to learn and use new methods of information retrieval.

They need to be the life-long learners that they want their students to be.