{"id":794,"count":6,"description":"With the rise of the iPad, Kindle, and similar eReaders and touchscreen devices, tablet-shaped form factor computing power has become much more portable and yet sizable. This holds great promise for educators on par with the introduction of slates, which swept across classrooms at the turn of the century before last.  Back then, the personal transcription device of chalk and stone slate tablets was seen as revolutionary.\r\n\r\nYes, the iPad is intuitive, the Kindle and Nook are cheap, and Android is Open Source, yet is the tablet form factor really all that?  There is the immediate e-reader usage model, but what other roles can tablets play? And are those roles most cost-effective with digital devices vs. analog or even paper technologies?","link":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/archive\/tablet-computers-in-education\/","name":"Tablet Computers in Education","slug":"tablet-computers-in-education","taxonomy":"category","parent":0,"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}