Schools across Australia are buying thousands of netbooks (lower-capacity laptops) under their Digital Education Revolution money. This has been a logical step because the Netbooks do most tasks quite well and they are very cheap and portable. However, a interesting report in the New York Times says that while netbooks have had a rapid rise, it looks as though they will be overtaken in the near future by tablets like the iPad.A number of schools have already purchased hundreds of iPads for students and I think it very likely that next year there will be large scale take-up in schools of iPads and other tablet computers.
The debut of the second generation tablet, the iPad, has been remarkably. Imagine what will happen when a the competition gets its iPad-like devices into the marketplace this year.
The convenience and portability of tablets will make integration of ICT into the classroom a lot easier.
