Oh iPad, Education will Never be the Same

Oh iPad, how you have changed the world.  It's ridiculous how such a simple electric device can shift the entire paradigm of education.  When you think about it, there are only four things that the iPad changed to make this massive change in education occur: 
1) It is ultra-portable
2) It turns on instantly
3) It uses single-service applications
4) It is relatively inexpensive compared to laptops

That's it.  That is the revolution.  And now children and adults alike are using iPads to learn.  Whether is browsing the news, interactive magazines, the Internet, YouTube videos, FaceTime interaction, learning applications, wikis, the list is endless.  Now all of these formal and informal learning sources are at our fingertips and available whether we are.  I even saw a physician carrying one around the other day looking up reference materials while walking to the cafeteria in the hospital.  Simply amazing.

I cannot wait to see how it transforms the classroom, corporate training and higher education.