iPads, MakerEd and More in Education

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a revolutionary change taking place right under our noses that promises to transform a myriad of sectors including education. It not only seeks to augment traditional human-to-human classroom interactions, but also challenges education in a broader sense.

IoT invokes opposing emotions. While technology evangelists are placing their bets on IoT, integrated objects, and an automated world, others are not too thrilled with the development, considering the privacy threats that it poses and finances that it demands.

There’s been a lot of chatter around IOT in recent times. Many believe that it is a futuristic technology that is hard to understand. In reality, IOT is simple to understand. So let’s look at what it really means.

IOT stands for internet of things. That in itself is explanation enough. We can look at IOT in terms of ‘internet’ and ‘things’. Internet used to be an interconnected network of computers. This is so not the case anymore. More and more ‘things’ are joining this worldwide network and this is what IOT means.

Now what are these things?