Apparently, when Cincinnati-based Kaleidoscope, Inc has some spare time on their hands, they do something besides drinking and YouTube-browsing. The latest installment on their blue-sky concept blog TheGreenerGrass.org is a piece of classroom technology that seems almost too good to be true. A tablet e-reader dubbed Papyrus, it leverages the E-Ink technology made famous by Amazon's woeful Kindle book, but in a very student-specific way.
Judging by the descriptions and mock-ups, it looks like they put some real thought into this one: Papyrus serves many of the same roles as the student laptop, but blesses it with a longer battery life, owing to E-Ink's miserly juice consumption, and removes most of the distractions that still make laptops the bane of many high school teachers' existences. The concept also spells out some clear examples of the kind of real-time student-teacher interaction it hopes to enable, and it feels quite viable (to this former high school teacher, anyway). The $100 price tag seems a little out of reach at the moment, but isn't out of the question in a year or two, making it the sort of purchase 8th graders could grab along with textbooks and Trapper Keepers.
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