And to do that, we must attend to vision, planning, faculty development, support, and assessment. Public education, too, could perish without a vision. But do not confuse vision with prediction. A visionary assumes that the future does not exist and must be created. Within limits, we can obtain the future we want, if we are willing to work for it.
American education lacks powerful visions of the future.
Most school reformers base their visions on successful schools today or in the past. While lecturing others on what schools of the future should be, they seem to be blind to the possibilities of all that is around them. We must begin to dream about what schools could be like if we would only take full advantage of the technology available to us today. We have scarcely begun to imagine what schools could become when we exploit the new technology to its maximum advantage. The first step in using technology for the transformation of schooling, then, is to build a vision of what we believe schools could become by taking full advantage of the new technology.