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The education market is a priority for e-reader makers because schools are now buying the devices for students.
The Jindal Foundation, started in July 2008, has spent about $1 million and installed about 170 interactive whiteboards that Mrs. Jindal, trained as a chemical engineer, calls "revolutionized chalkboards for the 21st century," at a cost of around $6,000 per classroom, including training, about 30 handheld devices for students and a teacher's laptop.
Lenovo and JP.IK are launching new devices for students, too.
Now, a new Android-powered tablet is on the market from Brainchild, a company that specializes in hand-held learning devices for students.
Microsoft saw something of a spike in the category in the late-00s, courtesy of the short but vibrant netbook boom, which helped educators realize the long hoped for promise of one-on-one devices for students, but that began to shift as tablets entered the scene.
A number of online resources are available to help educators identify and locate appropriate technological tools and devices for students with special needs.
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Tablets devices for student use present several advantages over laptops and desktops including portability, touch-screen features and numerous applications.
The projects utilised mobile devices for student-generated content and for enabling student-generated learning contexts, bridging situated experiences with the formal classroom.
"Aakash looked like a decent device for students and early adopters of technology," said Sandeep Budki the executive editor of The Mobile Indian, a Web site that reviews information technology products across India.
The company today announced that the Crammer Study & Sound System, a homework and study device for students in grades three through eight, is now available at major retailers and at http://www.leapfrog.com/crammer.
"We cannot afford to purchase computers for every student in the classroom, but we can afford these devices for our students," said Mr. Martinez, who equipped a high school biology classroom last spring with iPaq hand-held computers and specialized software from MindSurf Networks, an educational technology company.
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