| However, Richard Firth, CEO of MIP Holdings, says that parents and teachers should beware the use of tablets in place of laptops in the educational arena. “Tablets have their place – and it’s in primary schools,” he says. “Tablets are a great tool for the consumption of content, but are still largely ineffectual for true content creation. They have no place in high schools, where learners move from being a consumer of content to a producer of content, and where they are required to use computers for a lot more than just reading a digital textbook or taking notes.” |
