In the face of newly required standards-based curricula and recent insights into how students learn, it is even more important that teachers work together to foster natural bridges across curricula and that they apply advances in technology to enhance the process and engage learners. Perhaps our greatest challenge in applying multidisciplinary learning exists at the secondary grade levels. Many high schools have yet to adjust their schedules, strategies, or educational philosophies to accommodate the need to connect learning to real-world contexts and problems. Learners will be required to do so when they enter the workplace or higher education. As increasingly powerful networking, communication, computing, and digital storage systems augment the resources of our high schools, students will experience the integration of technology and the curriculum.
Information technology cuts across all disciplines.
It is a powerful aid to addressing real-world multidisciplinary problems. The ability to access and store digitized information allows the student to research, collect, and share on a level hitherto unparalleled. Collaboration and consultation with fellow students, faculty, and experts near and far is fast becoming an everyday experience. Mobile computing and storage devices promise a future of anytime, anyplace learning. They help students overcome handicaps, choose among learning strategies, perceive and create new relationships among subjects, and demonstrate their knowledge in words, pictures, moving images, and sound.