THEY won't be zapping hedgehogs or taking part in high-speed car chases as they sit in class clutching computer game consoles.
Instead the pupils and teachers at Handsworth's Holyhead Secondary School will be using the hand-held Sony Playstation Portable devices to boost learning.
Old fogies with little understanding of such matters may well tut-tut at the idea of youngsters and their teachers using this equipment. They would be wrong.
The school - and especially Lorna Diprose, the teacher who came up with the idea of using the consoles - should be congratulated for innovative thinking.
Lessons are no longer simply about teachers standing in front of classes writing on blackboards.
The world has moved on and it would be foolish to ignore the contribution that new technology can make.
Holyhead is at the forefront of a revolution that is only just beginning.
Tomorrow's world will be a very different place for schoolchildren.