Intel recently released its $150 Compute Stick, and its selling point is that it will turn any HDMI screen into a computer. This drastically changes the market for computers and for businesses, schools, and hospitals. You can now take your computer any where in your pocket. Since it has Windows along with built in Wifi, RAM, and 32 GB of storage you can access your e-mails, update documents, video conference, and more! Staying connected is now even easier!
The Intel Compute Stick has the potential to change technology in education. Newer schools are already being equipped with large displays with HDMI ports. With the capability of the Compute Stick, teachers could shift from having desktop computers or personal laptops. The stick could also plug into any HDMI projector so lessons can take place anywhere even if an HDMI display is not available. Have you ever gotten home and forgot to send a document to the cloud, save it to your jump drive, or e-mail it to yourself so you could work on it from another location? Well now with this stick, all of your documents can go in one place and travel is a breeze. I can see this stick affecting whether or not everything we do gets saved to the Cloud. As for students, they now have access to Windows based computers for the same price as our Chromebooks; however, the price of purchasing the display could be a downfall of the Compute Stick. As this technology progresses I believe we will see it used in a variety of settings and learn more of its advantages of use in education. Individual uses and needs of a PC will determine how well one likes the Compute Stick since it is missing additional USB ports and Ethernet port.
The following video highlights some more of the pros as well as a few cons of the Compute Stick.
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