Could Upcoming Touch Screen Computers Revolutionise Education?

The buzz around the supposedly forthcoming Apple Tablet (or iSlate?) is pretty overwhelming. Every day, a new rumor lights up the social media sphere, but at the end of the day, no one is quite sure what's happening. What people are guessing, however, is that if it is commanding the full wait of Steve Jobs' attention, it's going to be big.

A group of publishing companies put together a short movie about how the tablet may change the textbook industries.

If we think about education as a set of interfaces, right now it includes the distinct experiences of

1) classroom lectures

2) reading and researching from printed books

3) the social experience of group studying and discussion

4) web-based research and word processor-based writing

5) live testing

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