One-to-one going public

With computers steadily dropping in price I can see a major change in education on the horizon, especially public education.  Over the next 5 to 10 years more and more schools will be going one-to-one.  As the cost of laptops, tablets, and handhelds drop it becomes that much more affordable and enticing for school divisions to move in that direction.  At some point there will be a tipping point, where enough schools have gone one-to-one that the rest will rapidly follow.  Kind of like scientific calculators where just 15 years ago.  I remember the school I was at then.  They had a class set of TI-83 calculators that teachers had to sign out and cart into class.  The cost back then was more than $100 a pop.  Not that far off what a simple laptop runs today and if you take inflation into consideration probably about the same as a laptop cost today in relative dollars.  Teachers are going to have to adapt.  Colleges of education are going to have to adapt. There will be a flood of new teaching pedagogy coming out on how to use technology in a one-to-one setting.  The amount of resources on the net will explode as more people start to post lessons they are developing.  Curriculums will be re-written to better align with a one-to-one classroom. Certain skills that were once important will be removed from curriculums.

These changes are not just for public education on rich countries either.  Developing countries will be able to afford handhelds too just like they can afford cars.  Countries like India, Venezuela, Brazil, Russia, and China all have programs where car companies put out a line of cars that the lower class can afford.  It is causing an explosion in the number of cars on the road.  A similar thing will happen with one-to-one education in these countries.  An educational handheld model will be promoted joinlty by governments, educational institutions, and tech companies.