Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Educating for the future (01 Jan 2002) The promise of technology is mainly, however, the ways in which it can marry together both verbal and visual pedagogical processes. Luckwell is involved in a programme with a school in Mozambique, with whom they exchange photos to explore each other's lives, "which has just blown apart every preconception we ever had about what it's like to live [there]". Children were given not only a verbal explanation of life in Mozambique, but pictorial reference too. If, Johnson said, such material could be accessed through technology as required, paired with communication link-up tools, then this would truly open the way for visual and verbal interactivity and communication for the children of Luckwell School. Article URL: http://www.nestafuturelab.org/viewpoint/creat05.htm Read 76 more articles from NESTA Futurelab sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Examining User Expectations for the Location of Common E-Commerce Web Objects     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy