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[Maximilian Hohmann]

Hello!

(02-11-2021 08:55 PM)Jake Schwartz Wrote:  By "cheap Indian androids with emulators", do you mean smartphones? Are they less expensive than an HP Prime at $140? If so, I don't believe that the education market has ever accepted smartphones into the classroom.

About fife years ago, when our son was in his last year at school, he took part in a students exchange to Bejing. One of his (many) lasting impressions was that students at Chinese schools were allowed to use their smartphones in classrooms for everything. They even had full-time internet access.

So by numbers (derived from it's total population China must also be the country with the most students in the world) it can be said that "the education market" has been accepting smartphones in classrooms for at least five years. Within the span of a generation or so will will find out, if smartphone-educated students make better scientists, dentists, business people, musicians and architects than "we" paper-and-pencil eductaed ones...

And yes, there are plenty of smartphones in China that cost less than those 140$ that HP asks for their Prime.

Regards
Max

NB: As a sidenote, one of the lasting impressions of "our" Chinese exchange student was: "how green it is where you live!". During the half-hour drive from the airport to our home he had seen more grass, trees, cows, horses, and football fields than in his previous 18 years in Bejing together. And we don't live in the countryside, but in a major industrialised area of Germany...