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Tablet technology is as controversial in education today as television was three-quarters of a century ago. Computer technology has taken over where television left off, bringing changes to the way children and adults learn, both in terms of what is available to study and how they can acquire the knowledge they need and want. Tablets are revolutionizing the idea of what constitutes a computer, increasing technological capabilities while downsizing scale and price. Tablets on the market today and those new and improved versions that will arrive tomorrow can potentially level the education playing field for students of all socioeconomic backgrounds while simultaneously expanding what and how students learn.
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Walling, D.R. (2014). Tablet Technology as a Moving Target. In: Designing Learning for Tablet Classrooms. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02420-2_2
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