ABSTRACT
Innovation is a new method, product, or concept. One of the most transformative innovations of all time was the invention of moveable type and the printing press. In the world of education, from primary through tertiary, innovation seems to be all important. Schools and teachers want to be on the leading edge, to know the latest trend, to avoid being old-fashioned or possibly out of date. One of the abiding questions regarding educational innovations has to do with their diffusion, that is, the extent to which they do or do not spread throughout the educational community. A tablet of any kind is a product that grew out of an idea. And at the same time it makes possible new methods of teaching and learning. Everett Rogers lists five characteristics of new ideas namely Relative Advantage, Compatibility, Complexity, Trialability, Observability. In John Hattie's book Visible Learning for Teachers, people find 138 summaries of meta-analyses of particular educational innovations.
