My son’s school, Brophy College Prep has just announced that starting with the new batch of incoming freshmen, all students will be required to buy a Toshiba tablet PC. The purpose is clear –apart from the stated one of replacing expensive text books: Students are living in the age when much of their education experience in the analog world has a digital counterpart.

Their homework is already hosted on Blackboard, used by thousands of academic institutions.

How will we communicate with this Net generation? Don tapscott writes about this, how the 88 million in this generation won’t be avialble on the on-to-many technologies that are still around. He writes:

"…to today’s media literate kids, television’s current methods are old-fashioned and clumsy. It is unidirectional, with the choice of programming and content resting in the hands of few, and its product often dumbed-down to the lowest common denominator."