Schools modernizing through technology in Dubai

School teaching structures are rapidly changing in response to modernization and individualization thanks to the Internet, which has created a networked society.
“Progressive schools are focusing on integrating Information and Communication Technology (ICT) into education. Schools now increasingly favor tablets, especially for younger students who find the app-based devices easier to handle,” said Anders Lindblad, president of Ericsson in the Middle East, in an interview with Arab News at the Networked Society Forum in Dubai.
Lindblad said, “The mobile phone has been proclaimed the epitome of modern society, but there has not been much support for mobile phones in education, at least not in formal educational activities. Informally, however, students and teachers frequently use mobile phones as flexible, multipurpose tools mostly for recording information and communicating, but also for listening to music while working.” 
He said, “Whether the school of the future uses laptops, tablets, mobile phones or something in between, the future will demand individualized, mobile, easy-to-use devices.”

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