he's also president & ceo of tribeca flashpoint media arts academy, and when i spoke with him recently, he said that his school has embraced a new and better way to teach & learn. > > we think the big key, frankly, is that each person learns at their own speed, learns in their own fashion, and education has to be differentiated. you have to use the technology today to deliver individual instruction to each and every student. > and not just for a media arts school like yours, but you are saying this should be wholesale across the country in every school. > > absolutely. mass customization, so that some students can be doing extracurricular work, some can be doing remedial work, some can be taking quizzes. this is how we are going to drive education going forward, because one size just doesn't fit all. > there is some hardware for that. i know a lot of teachers use tablets. kids are working on computers. but is the software there for education? > > you know, honestly bill, this is trivial software. tracking and this kind of stuff, adaptive programming has been around for years and years.