Technology has had an effect on the ways teachers and students interact. Teachers often become fellow learners with the students, working alongside them to facilitate learning rather than having all the answers. Students themselves often teach other students, and classrooms are apt to contain students of several different grade levels. Technology's influence has made the acquisition of reading, writing and basic math skills more important than ever. As a result, teachers use technology on a regular basis to reinforce those skills.
Classrooms often participate in live interactions with events and people around the world.
For example, students watch as scientist in Antarctica conduct a variety of experiments and conduct the same experiments in their school. They send this data in via the internet and see it compiled in real time. The same scientists then conduct a discussion group with the students to help them understand the important concepts they have just discovered. Because students so often publish their work or present it before a group of interested people they are continually engaged in on-going self assessment and goal setting. As students evaluate their work, they have become much more strategic in their learning.