Each major unit of learning should include concrete experiences, reflective observations, abstract concepts, and active application. Theory and practice, general principles and their applications, should be appropriately balanced. Individuals must be asked to assume responsibility for their own learning while recognizing and encouraging their capacity for inter-dependence. High aspirations and hopes for the future should be reinforced by high expectations for performance and achievement. All products and performances must receive prompt, substantive, feedback describing their strengths and weaknesses.
Information technology is a tool, and tools have capacities.
Our uses of IT reflect our pedagogical thinking . Information technology can be used to help achieve many different goals and purposes, according to the choices made by the people who use it. This is as true in educational applications as it is in other areas. Information technology, with all its potential and possibilities, is a facilitator of certain learning designs, rather than an autonomous driver. We recognize two major trends in the use of the technology at this point.