In an essay, Clayton Christensen, a business prof at Harvard, says it's time for computers to change education in a radical way.

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The promise of America says we will guarantee quality education for all children and not spend more money on metal detectors than computers in our schools.

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Luckily, it seems that the momentum for education for all is finally beginning to build, fueled by lower-cost computers, greater levels of connectivity, and a willingness from some teachers to make their classes available online for free.

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Apple Computer Inc. designs, manufactures and markets personal computers and related personal computing and communicating solutions for sale primarily to education, creative, consumer and business customers.

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The 2011 National Conference on Education has also taken this issue at hand and has called for the roll-out of computers to schools, making the use of ICTs in classrooms more flexible by deploying mobile computer labs and expanding the existing community learning centres and libraries in terms of lifelong learning and open and distance learning.

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First, the introduction of computers into classrooms might have gobbled up cash that would otherwise have paid for other aspects of education.

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Computers were no longer a luxury for the few, but are as essential a part of education as books, pens and paper, he added.

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There is a huge opportunity in the intersection between tablet computers and education: two young Italian entrepreneurs decided to explore it, launching Timbuktu, first News magazine for children on the iPad.

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