If you buy-into the idea that the hand held form factor plus the internet is tomorrows super-computer/communication device, then you must acknowledge that much of what is taught and learned in the world of tomorrow, will originate with information from this device. Today it is seen as a telephone with simple, small computing capabilities. In the future it will become a PSC or Personal Super-Computer. Telephony will become a minor feature.

The evolution of the PSC is challenging traditional education on many levels. Its ease of operation – point and shoot video – and its comprehensive video emersion – pictures, sound and interactivity makes teaching by example a snap.

Scholastic achievement today is based on 2000 years of testing students for reading, writing and arithmetic skills. Wireless video and the Internet introduce large segments of the world’s population to a new and simpler form of learning based on real-time video. While teaching based on vocabulary, writing skills and math are well known and widely practiced, video comprehension is so new, intuitive and interactive that educators have yet to respond to this nascent mode of communication.

Lisa Wellman and Terry Wellman

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