When students are engaged at every level their learning curve increases dramatically. Now it's a matter of how the quality engagement takes place. We know that our future world will be totally encompassed by technology. Without the knowledge of technology as part of education, our students will not be able to function. So even though it may not enhance reading grades or math scores when we'd like it to, we do know that we want our students to use technology because it's going to be a measurement by which they're going to get jobs and be successful in them.
Educators continue to strive toward making technology have a greater impact in public education.
The question used to be whether it would ever make an impact. Today, the question is where technology can take us in the classroom to better educate our children. We may be the first state to have every single school connected to a high-speed network. That happened because a lot of people worked very hard to come up with a plan. That's an unbelievable accomplishment in a short period of time.