Digital Ink will make it possible for books to be printed, unprinted and reprinted at will. Given these possible developments, we need programs and policies that will assure that educational applications continue to be designed to support teaching and learning. This is an idea for dramatically increasing the size of the learning community available for classroom learning. Once completed, they will be listed in a national database available to schools. An individual might serve for different periods of time based on many different factors.
All citizens are historical informants for the periods and places they lived.
Most will have particular information about a job or career, and many will have other areas of strong interest that they could share. As intergenerational projects find, personal histories can transform personal memories into community treasures. All nationally funded research projects could, as a condition of the funding, be required to spend some of the resources to make an intellectual contribution to schools. This process would foster interdisciplinary collaboration and uses of cross-disciplinary datasets, Technology tools can help students visualize difficult to understand concepts and processes such as changes in wind speed and pressure, or interactions of molecules. Teachers could join the research teams to help oversee the development of these resources.