We have no idea what our children will need to know even ten or twenty years form now. That is why the whole learning philosophy is so important. We must teach them how to learn whatever they need to learn, so that they will be resilient, and able to adapt to new learning demands. I believe that technology is becoming central to education as it is to the rest of the world. Even in schools like mine, which are in low socioeconomic areas, and have less technology that more affluent schools, we have technology throughout the school.
Computers are in every classroom.
T.V.'s, V.C.R. 's, overhead projectors, tape recorders, scanners, digital cameras, video cameras are commonplace. Teachers are overloaded with the many aspects of their busy jobs, and frequently staff development is not provided. We have to learn it on our own, and we must, for the sake of our childfree. We have to help our children learn all they can to compete in a technological world. To compete, in many cases, with people that have had much more experience with technology.