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Whether using 2D or 3D scanners with large-screen interactive displays, using 3D printers to bring digital objects into real-world forms, or combining computer science with chemistry or robotics, developers and teachers are finding new ways to mix the best of ICT with the best of more traditional pedagogy.Large-format interactive displays and holographic screens, like HP’s ingenious zVR series displays, give educators powerful new tools to teach with, yet still give them scope to put their own knowledge, experience and enthusiasm to good use.Meanwhile, new cloud-based communications and telepresence platforms are enabling more collaborative approaches to learning, not just within the class or between classrooms in the same school, but across schools in the same area – or even different countries.What’s more, the way we interact with technology is changing. Voice recognition, natural user interfaces and innovative PC systems like the HP Sprout all have obvious classroom applications.

All this new technology will pose challenges for teachers. “I think it introduces a new digital divide” says Microsoft’s Steve Beswick, “between the teachers who get it, in terms of how to teach using technology, and want to drive that forward, and those who don’t. There will still be some who don’t get it, and that’s not good, but we will help those who want to cross the chasm and join the teachers who do.” For all the applications of this new mobile technology, we can’t forget more basic skills. HP’s Gus Schmedlen believes that laptops such as the new £179 HP Stream 11 Pro (above) still have a major role to play in education, because as long as students need to create a lot of content, a keyboard will still be an essential.Gemma Harris, from St Cuthbert and Matthias School, London, agrees. “If the children are just using iPads, then they lose the skill of being able to use a PC. Employers are telling us as teachers that they need people who can use a PC and Windows, and while tablets are fine, we still need to make sure that children learn all the basic skills of computing and using a mouse.”

As a laptop, the Flex 15 is one of the finest budget models we’ve encountered for some time. We’d rather Lenovo hadn’t shortened the right-Shift key to make room for the cursor keys, but this is a minor quibble. Otherwise, the Scrabble-tile layout is spot on, with zero flex or wallow in the base and a lovely, light, crisp feel to every keystroke. It also manages to accommodate a numeric keypad.The buttonless touchpad below isn’t quite as refined. A slight lip along its border occasionally interferes with Windows 8’s edge-swipes, but otherwise it isn’t too bad. Two-fingered scrolling and zooming gestures work well, and the whole pad depresses with a solid, muffled click. And it’s good to have the option of the stand mode in certain situations. It comes in handy for casual web browsing on a lap or workstation use on a desk with a full-sized keyboard and mouse. In either scenario, the ten-point multitouch touchscreen responds to every flick and prod of a finger.

There’s something just a little bit adorable about the Toshiba Satellite Click Mini, a dinky Windows 8 tablet that transforms itself into a compact Windows 8 laptop by clicking into the keyboard dock. Fans of the Asus Transformer line of 2-in-1 tablet/laptop hybrids will be more than familiar with the concept… and if you happen to work for Asus, you might want to take a look at this machine, because it gets a whole lot right. Follow all of the lastest news and reviews from CES 2015.The first item is simply its looks. This may seem like a trivial point, but even if you’re paying under £300 you want a laptop that you can show to your friends without apologising for its ugliness.Rather more important in day-to-day use is the screen. It’s an 8.9in IPS display, which immediately means strong viewing angles. Where Toshiba ups the battle compared to Asus is the resolution: the just-announced 8.9in Transformer Book T90 Chi has a 1,280 x 800 display, the Click Mini 1,920 x 1,200.

The biggest advantage this gives is detail in photos, and also helps if you’re working in a detailed spreadsheet; the obvious disadvantage is when you stumble upon a part of the Windows UI that isn’t optimised for touch (such as the minimise window at the top-right of an application window) the combination of a relatively small screen and high pixel count work against you. The Click Mini is a little bit thicker and heavier than the T90 Chi when used as a tablet, but at 470g it’s hardly a burdensome weight. I found it absolutely fine to hold in one hand.It’s also pretty nippy. Sure, the fact it’s powered by an Atom processor means this is never going to be a speed demon, but it’s by no means sluggish. In general use of flipping between programs and tapping away in Word, it proved more than quick enough for our needs.

Asus might at this point say the Atom inside the T90 Chi is a little faster – and it is, by 133MHz in base mode (1.46GHz vs 1.33GHz) and more than 500MHz in burst mode (2.39GHz vs 1.83GHz), but I’d argue there are more important factors to consider than this.And those become most clear when using the Satellite Click Mini in laptop mode. Whereas I struggled to type anything at all on the T90 Chi’s keyboard, the Click Mini proved a comparative joy: there’s just enough space between the keys to ensure you don’t make too many mistakes. There isn’t a massive amount of travel on the keys but it would be fine to use for an hour or two per day. You might might want to think again if you’re planning on that opus of a novel, when design decisions such as a minimal backspace key could get annoying.

But I’m being picky. For such a compact laptop, and at such a low price, it’s a great combination of keyboard and screen. There’s also a generous array of ports, both on the tablet itself and the keyboard dock. The tablet includes a microSD slot so you can build upon the built-in 32GB of storage, plus a micro-HDMI slot and a micro-USB connector – an adapter to turn it into a full-sized USB slot is bundled in the box. Handily, the tablet also includes a Windows button to accompany the volume up/down and power switch.I also had a play with the Toshiba’s TruCapture feature, which allows you to take a snapshot of a piece of text – say, a newspaper story or a whiteboard with notes on it. If it’s typewritten then you can also apply recognition technology to turn it into real text.The final point to make about the Click Mini: its battery life. The tablet lasts around eight hours of video playback, according to Toshiba; the battery in the keyboard dock doubles this to 16 hours. Not bad when you consider the whole caboodle weighs 999g in laptop mode.

When it comes to price it’s true that Toshiba hasn’t quite hit the magic sub-£200 point (unlike the £199 Transformer Book T90 Chi), but at £249 inc VAT it still looks great value. And I’d definitely pay the extra £50 to obtain a machine that’s just as usable as a laptop.I didn’t realise it at the time, but the tone for this year’s CES was very much set by Asus chairman Jonney Shih at the launch of the Transformer Book T300 Chi. “Lighter than Air”, “Faster than Air”, “Brighter than Air” – I paraphrase a little, but that was the running theme of Mr Shih’s presentation. Read more: Latest news and reviews from CES 2015 Likewise every laptop product manager I’ve spoken to, almost without exception, has taken the time to make a few disparaging remarks about the MacBook Air, the breakthrough machine that at one time stood for cutting-edge ultraportable but is now shorthand for portly and low resolution.Nor is it just the Air feeling the heat. Just take a read through Dell’s press release for the XPS 13, where a whole paragraph is dedicated to one ex-MacBook owner’s change of heart:http://www.dearbattery.co.uk

We live in an era of unprecedented, accelerated change, where the technology being used by young people outside the classroom evolves at a rate that leaves those of us who aren’t digital natives struggling to maintain the pace.Yet if we can take advantage of the latest classroom technology, we can do a better job of preparing students for the world outside. The financial barriers are breaking down and there’s help on offer for training and development.Google is known for jumping on new ideas relatively early on, bringing a product to market designed to test the waters for future endeavours. It’s what happened with the once lacking Gmail, the previously underwhelming Chrome browser, and there was even a time when Android was a disappointing and ugly mobile OS.After all, it’s priced incredibly competitively, coming in at just £30 compared the Roku Streaming Stick’s (its closest rival) £50 price point, and the technology underpinning it is blissfully simple – it sounds ripe for improvement.

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