Copyright 1999 Concord Consortium. Over the past several years many breakthroughs have occurred in learning technologies.
Students are able to explore, investigate, and analyze their local environment with increasing ease.
Teachers are using graphing calculators connected to computer-based lab interfaces to test the water quality in streams. Programmable motion detectors and light switches are being used to teach concepts of control and feedback. Due to technologically innovative and powerful tools, students are engaged in the inquiry process firsthand. We've all seen the business traveller who boards a plane scribbling on a pocket computer to review a schedule, find a phone number, prepare a presentation or record expenses. Now imagine these small personal computers in the hands of every student.