Handhelds are empowering revolutions. Why are we not using them to empower education?
This morning at Howard Rheingold’s SmartMobs.com, where I am on the blogging team, I posted this: Could Egypt be having a “Flash Mob Revolution?” I quoted a post by Jazz Shaw who described how mobile devices are used to organize scattered mobile device owners to takes some sort of action.
Another SmartMobs.com blogger, Mark A.M. Kramer, writes about how the Egyptian government has shut down wireless communication in order to halt the demonstrations.
I just heard on the news that U.S. State Department spokesman P.J Crowley is using Twitter to send policy messages about Egypt.
Lesson: The way to reach Egyptians is through their handheld devices.
Question: Why then do we not deliver knowledge for the learning in the same way? Why not?
If the Sphinx knows he is not talking.
