Apple's iPhone/iTouch/iTunes ecosystem "may prove to be the fastest ramping and most disruptive technology product / service launch the world has ever seen
via readwriteweb.com
Combine these reports with this week's headlines that Africa has the highest per capita concentration of cell phones (surprise), and we can easily see where education is heading (or at least where it 'needs' to head).
The next generation is mobile. Education must be available to this mobile generation. Textbooks will be electronified NOT simply because it's green and saves trees. It's about delivery to the mobile masses. KurzweilAI.com announced it's own e-book breakthrough this past week. It is open source and platform transforming rather than device-centric.
Educators, above all, should be able to think beyond the linear, boxed-in paradigms up which it has rested for decades, and take advantage of the new mobile platforms before us. It seems unfortunate that rather than switch, the behemoth institution would rather fight to retain their hierarchical position that is trending inevitably toward extinction. (posted 1/4/10)
