Knowledge will not keep static. The textbooks that we prepared yesterday are outdated by tomorrow. The other thing we know is that the future will mean change. It is these two core ideas that we need to take into consideration when we prepare the educational programs for our children. They need to know that the knowledge that can be passed on to them through classroom experiences and textbooks is only a fraction of the world of knowledge.
Information technology is a basic phenomenon of the information society.
Without technology the stream of information would not be possible, just the same way as communication from one place to another in former times was not possible without a good road system or a system of railway tracks and trains. But information technology is only the means in an information society, it cannot be the end in itself. The technology has no value judgement and carries equally rapidly the nonsense and the good news, the pornography and the religious texts. But it is in the schools that we need to teach our young people how to use it effectively and critically. The changing role of the school library is at the heart of all these changes.