Traditionally, classroom focus has been teacher-centered. Passive learning is being replaced by active, exploration, inquiry based learning which often becomes a multimedia experience. Because students are so visual, more videos are being used. Computers and use of the Internet and particular websites are encouraged both in and out of class as the isolated artificial contexts are being replaced by real world contexts. According to the book, Curriculum Integration, integrating the use of technology into the curriculum, is important so that technology becomes a tool to optimize instruction.
Chalkboards are obsolete, something students see as graffiti walls.
Overhead projectors no longer fascinate the students of the new millennium the way they fascinated students of the sixties. Students are more technologically advanced than their teachers learning animation and video game development in the first level of computer graphics classes. This is how students are being prepared for the real world. The hardest thing for teachers to grasp, especially lateral entry teachers who rely heavily on how they were taught as their methods of teaching, is trying to develop ways for the students to take charge of their learning. ISTE-NETS states part of the problem in letting go may be because the students are using such expensive equipment.