Samsung tablets in the classroom

In my place of work, we have all been given Samsung tablets (10.1) to use in the classroom. The children that the tablets are being piloted on are around 10-11 years old and are, of course, in love with technology, as am I. Advantages of the tablet; -we have an excellent system called Smart School on the tablet. This has been designed for Samsung only as far as I am aware and enables the teacher to prepare a lesson for the students to join into. Once all the students are in, you can see all of their 'boards' on the tablet and everything that they are doing, such as writing or doodling. It also lets you connect to a system called all share cast which connects your tablet to the smart board so all of the students can see whatever is on there. So far for English lessons, we have only really used it for vocabulary lessons and are still exploring other ways we can use it for teaching. You can disable interaction for one, some or all of the student's boards and it also hs a lockdown system where the students boards are paused and a sign comes up saying "Be quiet please!" or any other message you type into it. Great for off-task students. Disadvantages Being a piece of technology, it can be temperamental. If the internet goes off for even a split second, it stops the lesson, kicks you and all of the students out of the lesson and you're left with a class full of bewildered, confused students who hit the roof. Also, the students have found ways to disable school screen mode (when they join the student network at school, it only allows them access to whatever the school chooses and their normal screen disappears, stopping them from playing on facebook and playing games). I think these are minor hitches that are more to do with the internet server at work and they are looking into them as I write. Overall outcome This needs "to be continued" as I am curious about how it will play out in the long run. Will the students get tired of this expensive piece of technology? Will we? Will they hack the system no matter what and be able to get out of school screen mode? And will we find a decent course book that we can use on this £450 tablet? ....