Because these technologies are not interactive, their effectiveness has been limited. Enter the Web. Over the Internet, students can access instructional modules on demand, instead of having to wait for them to be broadcast or mailed. Computer-based learning materials can model the student's learning and proactively help the student achieve the learning objectives. Technology will enable us to achieve the goals of the cognitive movement in education.
Cognitive psychology portrays learners as active processors of information.
Students learn better when they can invent knowledge through inquiry and experimentation instead of memorizing facts presented in a teacher-dominated classroom. Since there is only one teacher for many students, it is physically impossible for a teacher to support this kind of environment for each student in a traditional classroom. The Web helps by providing students with an interconnected world of knowledge to explore. Since the learner is portrayed as an active processor who explores, discovers, reflects and constructs knowledge, the trend to teach from this perspective is called constructivist. Technology will enable more teachers to adopt constructivism.