It represents a major change in routine and loss of authoritarian teacher control. It requires the development of self control skills in students and their ability to work cooperatively. The teachers also have anxiety due to lack of skill with emerging technologies, cost of technology, and fears of loss or damage of equipment. Forces of Change Change is here. Some students need drill some know the material and are ready for enrichment still others are capable of presenting and teaching the content.
Some students learn more visually with pictures, simulations, or animated movements of a process.
Others prefer reading about the information or listening to a verbal descriptions. Computers can deliver a wide range of tasks, information and modalities all at once. The educational institutions and job markets will require high tech use and production skills of those who enter and want to participate successfully. We must become a nation of knowledge workers, users of technology, to compete in a global market. There is a growing dissatisfaction with standardized, norm referenced tests as a measure of learning.