Earlier this week, I had the pleasure of talking with John Martellaro over at the Mac Observer [1], says Christopher Dawson for ZDNet Education. He had written an article a couple weeks ago about “The Real Reason Apple Wants a 7-inch iPad [2]” which, in part, inspired my own post on the new Kindle Fire HD and its inability to change the game in education [3]. My problem with tablets in education has, for the relatively short time tablets and e-readers have been floating around, always been one of ecosystem (or the lack thereof). John and I explored this and several other issues around the iPad specifically in education in the interview he published on Wednesday [4]. By the time we were done talking, he had titled the article “The State of the iPad in Education: a Giant Mess”. Not a terribly flattering description, to be sure, but unfortunately fairly accurate. This isn’t to say that there aren’t educators and students doing awesome things with iPads…