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Danielle M. Villegas‘s insight:

This is positive news for those who support iPads in the classroom or any mobile tablets in the classroom. It’s interesting to me to see such a positive impact! We need more iPads in the classroom! 

 

I know that my son has a Mac laptop at school, and uses my iPad at homework time sometimes. We need to continue to make this work, if there are positive results like this!

–techcommgeekmom

Danielle M. Villegas‘s insight:

Scott Abel, AKA The Content Wrangler, shared this on his Facebook page today. It’s definitely an interesting concept, and it makes sense. I know that upgrading a phone can be expensive, but this concept has some merit. Just like a car that you keep for a long time, it would be easier and more affordable to replace or upgrade parts rather than entire devices. This would be more helpful for developing countries as well that are trying to get into the websphere via mobile device. Definitely a concept to be watching…

–techcommgeekmom

Danielle M. Villegas‘s insight:

This is cool technology that is worth trying out if you have the money. I had a chance to check it out, and didn’t! Mea culpa. I think there are a lot of possibilities for these, especially in medicine, engineering, and education. If someone has a spare $1500 to spend on me, please feel free to buy me a pair! 🙂

–techcommgeekmom

Danielle M. Villegas‘s insight:

I found this article interesting, because it relates closely to my wallet (and everyone’s wallet), but it also relates to the availablility of internet services around the world and the availability for mobile devices as well. In my area, part of the internet package or bundle is that you have access to public wi-fi if your provider has access available to it. In other words, if I’m at the supermarket rather than my home, and the public wifi from Comcast is available and received while I’m in the supermarket, then I can sign-in and enjoy the Comcast wifi signal at no extra cost, as I’m already a Comcast subscriber.  This is fine, as many areas in the US have Comcast. However, it’s not flawless, because if I’m travelling by car or any other transportation, each time I come to a new transmission tower, I have to sign in on my mobile device again and again and again….If I’m stationary, then it’s fine. 

 

But it does leave one to question why the general pricing of broadband or any other internet services varies so much from country to country? Is it the amount of demand that brings on greedy providers?  I would imagine that as access becomes more affordable, it will allow more and more users to take advantage of what the internet has to offer, whether it’s social media, information or m-learning.  Hopefully, this will all stabilize soon so that costs are more feasible for all.

–techcommgeekmom