Dive Summary:

• After edtech startup Amplify debuted its Android-powered tablet for classrooms at SXSWedu, David Zax, a contributing editor for the MIT Technology Review, wrote an article questioning whether the Amplify tablet can really solve important problems in education. 
• Zax drew attention to the fact that underserved students, those most in need of the best possible technology, are less likely to have access to game-changing tablets and educational technology, which may in fact reinforce the achievement gap.
• Zax raised doubts on the gamification of education and questioned whether focusing too much on students having fun impedes meaningful learning in the classroom. 

Here's a video of the Amplify tablet being implemented in classrooms:

From the article:

“... 'We hear a lot from the kids that it doesn’t feel like learning anymore,' Chris, a teacher from one of the Amplify Tablet pilot schools, says exuberantly in another of the company’s videos, below. But that’s what I’m afraid of."