A Possible Future for Education

I've recently read several stories about new methods of educating and the most exciting seems obvious. It is that children should have a modern computer tablet with a User Interface (UI) like our current smart phones and tablets, icons and apps found on a "play store", "app store" or 'education store', and an electric outlet charger to keep the tablet powered (or perhaps a solar panel on the face of the tablet to keep the tablet charged enough to avoid loss of all data.

Tablet computers are cheap and we have an existing structure, so we just need the apps to educate the children. In India (if I'm recollecting properly) they are using "game apps" to teach and to keep the children interested. I can easily imagine a national or world-wide or even school district wide 'store' for apps of interest to that area.

We need to use our technologies more and to extend the paradigm of a "well-educated public" to more of the world. The technologies exist and are used widely and creating 'education stores' where apps could be found to teach language, history, maths, sciences, and all the rest, should not be difficult to create or fill. I could imagine a philanthropist or an open source public starting it at relatively low cost. After all, the initialization would be the hardest, most expensive part of operations. Once schools have initialized the student tablets, there would be far less data transfer. Of course there are updates of apps AND information, but that would still be far less than the initial distributions.

The initial distribution of tablets with the initial apps would be the most expensive part by far. That is where national governments would need to work together.