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Stephen Downes

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Wayan Vota makes a prediction we'll be able to test more quickly than most people realize. "Regardless of how amazing the iPad is, until we invest in trained teachers who know how to use technology to improve their teaching activities, until we have parents and politicians focused on learning outcomes and not iTunes apps, regardless of how many apps or how easy the technology is, I fear that iPad educations in the developing world will be wasted." We will see iPads - or, more likely, much less expensive generic pads from Asus or low-cost Chrome tablets and others - throughout the world in very short order. Will educational activities on these devices be wasted? I think not.

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