Nintendo to release...a modified Android tablet targeted towards schools?!

[Tupin]

http://www.gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=217296

Comes from one of NOA's software engineers. Perhaps we're seeing a move to them using heavily modified Android as the base for their handhelds?

[BlastProcessing402]

I for one am a bit disgusted by this trend of schools wasting a ton of money on gadgets meanwhile complaining how they don't have any funding, teachers get no pay, etc.

I got news for you, 2+2 is still gonna = 4 even if you have to do it on paper or the blackboard instead of on a tablet.

[Gameguy]

I for one am a bit disgusted by this trend of schools wasting a ton of money on gadgets meanwhile complaining how they don't have any funding, teachers get no pay, etc.

I got news for you, 2+2 is still gonna = 4 even if you have to do it on paper or the blackboard instead of on a tablet.
It could reduce costs if schools no longer have to buy updated textbooks every few years, textbooks are very expensive and if you can fit several textbooks worth of information in a single tablet they'll pay for themselves in a few years.

It really depends on how these would be used. If they're just replacing notebooks which parents had to provide themselves, it won't reduce costs. Based on the vague information above it seems like this product will be replacing the older dedicated computer labs in schools, maybe that's it for now. We all remember the educational games in schools, for younger grades that's just about all those computers were used for.

[DiEsmitty]

It could reduce costs if schools no longer have to buy updated textbooks every few years, textbooks are very expensive and if you can fit several textbooks worth of information in a single tablet they'll pay for themselves in a few years.

It really depends on how these would be used. If they're just replacing notebooks which parents had to provide themselves, it won't reduce costs. Based on the vague information above it seems like this product will be replacing the older dedicated computer labs in schools, maybe that's it for now. We all remember the educational games in schools, for younger grades that's just about all those computers were used for.

e-Textbooks still cost money, and every couple of years there will be a new edition. Did the price of a digital games go down nope, the price of Kindle books for major titles isn't that heavily discounted. If you have an iPad look at the prices of text books in iBooks. Textbook publishers still have to get there cut. Kids break crap all the time, who is going to replace broken tablets? I like the fact that nintendo is trying something new, but I think this is a miss allocation of resources for a school district.