How Much Will Technological Advancement Change the Way We Teach?

I believe that the increasingly interactive and diminished size of computers, communicators and handhelds will exert a strong influence over secondary education with regard to how teachers teach and students learn. What I mean by this is that while I believe that the substance of lessons will not change significantly, the teaching and learning process will. I believe that it is a matter of relatively short time before every student has some type of personal computer that they bring with them to school. (As a side note, I recently skimmed an article discussing how one school district is using iPods to enhance the process of students learning English as a second language.)

While right now most teachers and students prefer to have physical books, papers and tests, for example, in the near future I believe most teachers and students will opt to have them in digital form. In digital form, reading will be easier (including note-taking, highlighting, reverting to previous passages, etc.), papers will be easier for teachers to grade and tests will be easier for students to take and teachers to grade.