Learning in the present-day world

Take a moment to reflect on the world in which you are currently living. The mobile phone, which is the size of a 'Weet Bix' and about the same weight, has more computing power in it than NASA relied on in 1969 to land the first man on the moon (Dagan et ai, 2004). While referred to as a mobile phone, the 'I Phone', for example, has application capacities that make it more like a personal computer than a telephone. We are witnessing discoveries in medical science that are curing the once incurable, redefining how health care is delivered and propelling life expectancies ever closer to the century mark (Florida, 2002).