Teachers also require more time to collaborate with other educators. They interact with their colleagues only for a few moments each day. Most other professionals collaborate, exchange ideas, exchange information and develop new skills on a daily basis. Most important, teachers need a compelling reason to change. Teachers need more evidence that technology works in the classroom.
Early adapters can play a role in the change process.
We need to identify those teachers who will become the models that we want in our schools and furnish them with the tools it takes to let them do it right. Let's work together with kids to solve real problems with others in society who are concerned about them. New technologies can support and to some extent encourage this paradigm shift by providing both teachers and learners with access to new sources of information and knowledge, including access to experts in an assortment of subject areas. For this paradigm shift to happen, however, it must be based on pedagogy and not on technology. Participants agreed that education must change to reflect the demands and new possibilities of an information society.