The education technology blogosphere is buzzing today about the announcement over the weekend that South Korea will fully digitize all school curriculum by 2015. Details are unclear at the moment, but plans are apparently to use tablets and other mobile devices and do away with all textbooks and most printed material altogether in schools. The government will spend over $2 billion to roll out the initiative. Many are predicting this will most likely not be an iPad bonanza, however, as Samsung is a Korean company, has their own Galaxy Tab tablet (pictured) and therefore will most likely win out. Sort of like how the U.S. President always drives an American car.
What will this mean? Will Korea continue to leapfrog past us in education? Or will it serve as a humongous lesson in what not to do? What happens after you spend those billions on new devices and they're obsolete in 18 months? We'll see what happens!
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