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The TV Program Technow showed yesterday a school here in the Silicon Valley where each student got a iPad. They are now going to roll this program out to every student of this school beginning this upcoming school year. I am surprised how fast some schools are jumping on the technology and would not be surprised to see the iPad sales numbers to climb up even faster.

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The enterprise remote tools will work well for schools (e.g. remote disable). It might be very tempting to start a company to build a library of single topic lessons (audio, video, text, and maybe some simulation) on a variety of subjects. License it to schools for a yearly fee.

Plus, you have the added bonus of no camera so you won't get sued for that :)

Actually the educational technology sector is well established, most of the large textbook companies already have programs for flowing their content into multiple application formats, and have well established sales teams that understand the market. Not to say that there aren't opportunities in that space, but you are going to have to provide unique value if you want to be competitive.

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