Tech Writer Lists 2011's Education Tech "Fizzles."

Christopher Dawson explores his take on things which he and others in the education technology community expected to take off in 2011 "that just sort of fizzled" at the ZDNet (12/21) "Education" blog. These included cheaper Android tablets, which failed to wrest significant market share from the iPad. "All of those cheap Android tablets were supposed to usher in great, interactive textbook applications. The EPUB standard has evolved, Adobe released awesome PDF and tablet-centric technologies, and publishers started pushing out electronic versions of their textbooks for download or rental, but the content never really appeared. As we mentioned above, neither did the inexpensive devices on which students could read and interact with the texts." Other "fizzles" include PC over IP, the bring-your-own-device movement, and broader "tech-centric pedagogy."