I remember when the American Chemical Society made students memorize the periodic table on their year-end standardized tests. That no longer happens. No, a handheld won't be allowed into an AP test as of right now. But if you teach kids how to think about challenging questions, not just memorize answers, it doesn't matter how much information you have stored on a handheld. ML Let's look inside a kid's backpack.
Kids carry around a year's worth of curriculum in their backpack in the form of bound paper.
They've got a number of different other tools that they use. It's a huge communications vehicle. Now, when you look at the digital landscape, at all the things that are happening, the handheld computer is communication, but it's also infotainment, edutainment, whatever you might want to call it. It should handle lots of these functions to the degree that people really need them. Obviously they're not going to be the ultimate video camera, but you can use it as a video camera.