Android Tablets For The Classroom

Technology is racing on, especially in the classroom

. In some schools tablets or laptops are being provided instead of textbooks. Whatever the teaching environment, providing a young person with a tablet at school requires an element of control to be implemented. Without this control, young people will use and abuse the tablet for things other than classroom activities, including searching the Internet, sending emails, chats on social networks, playing games, and any other non-educational activity they can find to access. Changing settings to access the camera, and installing their own apps is easy. Changing these settings could also make the tablet difficult to use by others who may share the tablet or teachers who may need to access files to grade a pupils work.

A 10.1 Android tablet has a full-size colour screen, built-in memory, and many features of a standard computer. The relatively high resolution screen is suitable for use with a projector, and with a large on-board memory (20-60 GB or more with 16 GB being a useful standard to adopt) allows even complicated multimedia presentations to be loaded onto a Tablet without running out of space.

Most Android Tablets include high speed wireless (WiFi) networking and Bluetooth and include ports, such as standard or mini USB and HDMI ports with audio output and SD card slots taking up to 64 GB SD cards for extra memory.

Android-powered tablets have a big price advantage over Apple iPads making them more cost-effective for budget limited schools. Android tablets also allow users to download third-party software, which Apple prevents, which stops schools implementing student monitoring software on iPads. Android tablets with a different front end GUI installed can be customised to better meet school and pupil requirements.

Android tablets using the new Jelly Bean operating system can easily be customized to suit classroom needs so making it an ideal tablet and operating system combination for the classroom.

An Android tablet offers most of the advantages of PCs common in many classrooms especially when used with a keyboard and mouse but they also add new capabilities:

The touchscreen allows users to "draw" using a finger or stylus. It is possible to draw with a mouse but drawing with a stylus is much easier for most people. A Tablet can be used in landscape or portrait modes. Very convenient for material that may have been originated in portrait format like most books. Tablet are ultra-light with a long battery life. They are very portable and especially good for field work away from the classroom. Versions of most popular applications are available for tablets, without the need for lengthy training sessions.

Built-in Digital cameras produce a powerful data collection and annotation tool for subjects like architecture, art or biology and science. The microphone can capture audio data.

The combination of an Android tablet with control apps (software) to prevent pupils from abusing their use provides not only a great opportunity to reduce the cost of supplying printed books but also to provide a very adaptable classroom tool.

by: JessieWu

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