The iPad represents the shift from computer platform to computing appliance. There are many examples of this now, but the iPad represents the most blatant.
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Let's get right to it: most designs for classroom technology are based on a 20-year old paradigm of furniture, cables and pipes (and lots of equipment). While continuing to replicate these dinosaurs may serve to ensure job security (for now), this model requires heavy infrastructure that adds cost and locks the room into a rigid floorplan that does not support progressive teaching and learning practice.