Technology may, in the future, help us develop a learning system where a child is involved in knowledge construction rather than simply passing to the next grade. We will use the IEP to determine what knowledge a child must demonstrate before graduating. In today's environment school can be a behavior-management facility first and a learning facility second. Technology could enhance the learning side of school with challenging and engaging knowledge construction, while diminishing the behavior-management aspects often found today. Finally, fact-based learning is where we find many schools today.
Facts are easy to gather and reiterate.
Actually, technology strengthens our ability to gather facts in short time. However, procedural learning is of higher value than factual learning since procedures help students use information at hand in a particular learning situation. Procedures apply only to narrow circumstances though. Strategies, on the other hand, can be applied to new situations and are inherently more universal. Consider last week's activity structures and action sequences.