If you want to pick a great gift for a student or a teacher, a Tablet PC (e.g. tablets) would be the perfect pick. Tablets are strongly recognized by the education community as a powerful tool. There are a number of public schools encouraging students to use tablets instead of heavy set of textbooks. For example, in Manila, Philippines, the city government has provided tablets to senior high school students in selected public schools on a pilot basis (ABS-CBN News, 2012). Another example, in Richland County School District 2 in Columbia SC, a dear sister-friend (college alumni) of mine has two sons in the middle school who are using the iPad2 for their school assignments, along with their books. A third example, my church has a scholarship ministry to assist students who are going to college. Last summer, the graduating high school seniors were award a new iPad2 along with scholarship funds to go to college. And a final example, I received a Blackberry Playbook as a gift in October 2011 and I love it. It comes in handy when I attend meetings, grad school symposiums, and especially job interviews. The progression in tablets has captured the imagination of educators around the world (The NMC Horizon Report, 2012, p. 14). Because of their portability, large display, and touchscreen, tablets are ideal devices for students for individual learning, as well as fieldwork (p. 15). Tablets are excellent tools to have, being a mobile device with a combination of a laptop, smart phone, e-reader, Wi-Fi connection, and a mass of apps available to customize it (p. 17). Students can take their notes electronically, anytime, anywhere. They can record their lectures and/or presentations easily. Their data is protected. And most importantly, they will benefit with getting more assignments done in less time. No question about it, tablet computing has, and still is, proven itself to be an ideal solution for both students and educators.
The forces I found for this blog are: economical, educational, and technical. Tablets are economical being lightweight, easy to carry where students can function without lugging around laptops, portable notebooks, and/or textbooks combined. They also have a low-heat processor and a longer battery life than the average laptop (Dutta, 2012). Tablets are educational having specific functions via special digital pen in which the student's handwriting becomes the input within the tablet itself. Students with tablets are not only learning new game apps but they are also learning or enhancing their skills challenging subjects such as science, technology, engineering, mathematics. Not only do the students' grades increase, but also their standardized test scores (Bloom, 2012). Tablets are of course technical. Students can take notes electronically that can be stored, accessed, reviewed, reorganized, and synchronized with inputs that can be streamlined with input in other data or fille formats (Dutta, 2012).
Reference Cited:
ABS-CBN News. (2012). Makati public school students to get tablet PCs. Retrieved from http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/lifestyle/05/31/12/makati-public-school-students-get-tablet-pcs
Bloom, J. (2012). Educational value of tablet computers. Retrieved from http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/technology&id=8469105
Dutta, P. (2012). What are the advantages of tablets pcs? Retrieved from http://www.ehow.com/facts_4886016_what-advantages-tablet-pcs.html
New Media Consortium (NMC). (2012). Tablet computing: Time-to-adoption horizon: One year or less. Retrieved from http://www.ctudoctoral.net/file.php/1038/2012-Horizon-Report-HE.pdf
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