Lovely quote from Fraser Speirs, responding to people sceptical about his school’s ‘iPad for every pupil’ approach:

What the iPad has allowed us to do is to bring digital resources up to the same level of availabiliy as paper resources in our teaching. It’s unthinkable that pupils would only have one or two hours of access to books each week, yet that was the position with digital resources before we deployed the iPad.

Sadly, I’m increasingly thinking that whatever happens on a more widespread basis in the UK, it’ll likely have more to do with the likes of the RM Slate than the iPad, despite the RM device being pricier than the iPad, having a battery life of “over three hours” (compared to the iPad’s all-day charge—essential for school and work use) and lacking the app ecosystem that’s been a major component of the success of the project at Speirs’s school.