The Amplify Tablet: A Device Custom Made For Teachers And Students

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Amplify Tablet: A Device Custom Made For Teachers And Students
Jeff Dunn, Edudemic, March 6, 2013
Did the world need "a device custom made for teachers and students?" I don't know, but it now has one, courtesy the the edtech startup Amplify(which naturally launched at SXSW). From my admittedly distance perspective, the designers have confused "education" with "command and control":

• The teacher has the ability to monitor everything happening on the rest of the tablets in the classroom.
• the ability for a teacher to send out an ‘eyes on teacher’ announcement where all devices tell the student to look up at the teacher. More...