As the rate of change increases, teachers experience an almost dizzying disorientation and perceived loss of control. Many find themselves confronting new educational directions to which their past learning and experience simply do not transfer. 73 Teachers must become both flexible, active learners and facilitators of others' learning. For example, writing, language and communication skills are far too complex to be merely a finite set of rules learned in rote fashion. Therefore, technology can be only one small step in the development of language, writing, and communication skills.
Technology provides the tools or means to enhance the quality of the end product.
It allows the learner time to think and be more creative, to look at things from different perspectives, and to ask thoughtful questions. Technology allows the learner to explore their world in new and exciting ways, learn how to learn, and realize that they have something of worth to offer. Most persons go through life not realizing there are areas in their lives in which they possess important information. Those schools that help children know what they know provide one of the most important services any learner can receive. 75 A corollary to this is that people, not technology, possess information.