Pervasive broadband computing is a new environment that will increasingly influence the landscape over the next few years. We have yet to explore the implications of all population segments having essentially perpetual access. The distance between school work and real work rapidly becomes negligible. Authentic schooling in which teachers assist students in producing real work that becomes part of the adult world is increasingly common. Control of information is not only extremely difficult, but increasingly undesirable.
Open accountability becomes a very real event, even on intranets.
The focus shifts from having access to secret information to having the skill to make maximum use of the information that all can see. As a result, communities can become more involved and use their greater awareness to both assist schools in their mission and enable greater value to the community from the school's participation. The access to information is increasingly common. What remains is the development of skills to enable information to become wisdom.