With the aid of CD ROM, the internet, and the myriad of computer software, children seem to be advancing at a faster rate than ever before. They are reading faster and able to retain larger facets of information with more significant depth than in the past. If you visit a kindergarten class, you might be surprised to find them multiplying and dividing or even dabbling with a bit of algebra. I know I was astounded, but then I realized these are students of the future. The twenty-first century students are not the only ones technologica l advances will influence, because today's college students are also utilizing technology more than their parents.
College students spend more time working and playing on the computer than any group in America.
We have easy access and fairly unlimited resources. As a result, it is expected that when students graduate they are computer literate. As early as the college internship, most employees hire you with the assumption that you not only are PC literate, but are familiar with fax machines, copy machines, the internet and other telecommunication tools. The colleges that will continue to thrive will be those institutions that keep pace with the thriving telecommunication modernization. What astonishes me are the people who are against the phenomena that is taking place in our educational systems.