It's writing time. To claim that wired schools automatically improve the learning of students is one of the great modern myths. Wiring and equipping are an insufficient recipe for success. Without a well funded, substantial and strategic commitment to ongoing professional development and technical support, schools are likely to end up with the screensaver's disease, not a surge in student performance. We have the latest equipment, the fastest network and every technological advantage imaginable.
Every student has a notebook computer, a Web page and an electronic portfolio.
We prepare them for a digital future by making school into something like a digital stadium. We expect them to do digital high jumps, broad jumps and sprints. We present them with a digital decathlon that will challenge the best of them. There is no risk here of a digital divide. Our students are fully accomplished digerati even before reaching high school.