
Can Pocket PC's (PPCs) take advantage of the so called "Gameboy effect" and become real competitors to textbooks and exercise books? The paper reports on PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants) as tools for teaching, learning and working in Primary Schools. - The establishment of a Pocket PC class at the Übungsvolksschule (observation primary school), part of the Educational Academy of the Archdiocese of Vienna (Pädagogische Akademie der Erzdiözese Wien) is reported in this paper.