Libraries, bookstores, magazines and other information pipelines are nearly unlimited in variety and scope. Cable television channels alone carry fascinating information on history, zoology, drama, forensics, meteorology, government, painting, writing, home repair, cooking and a multitude of skills and hobbies. Alisoun Moore, CIO of Maryland, put it in personal terms. Kids that do use the library, she said, are using library computers to access the Internet for homework. Phil Burgess, fellow of the Center for the New West said that while technology has shaped the world, some technologies didn't shape the world because there were no big ideas to go along with them.
Education is the giver of big ideas on which our culture thrives.
But educators must also be willing to listen to those big ideas and employ those new technologies. Inc. All Rights Reserved.