I don't think there are any greater heroes than teachers. But the organization called school and the industry called education do seem to be in need of reform. If you take a person from 100 years ago and put them on a street corner, they'd be blown away. But if you take that person and put them in a classroom, within five minutes they would know exactly what's going on. Any other industry has changed dramatically over 100 years.
Education has to go through that transition.
I'm not sure. There are certainly indications from the different pilot programs people have tried over the years that technology does have a positive impact on the way kids feel about learning, as well as the outcome. The pilots are good, the evaluations are excellent, but it always seems to stop there. I know that the Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow have produced some incredible documentation around long-term effectiveness of technology use. But I do believe the results are accurate.