This is the challenge educators today face. In the past, teachers could use the same lesson plan year after year, making only slight adaptations. Today's teacher must not only change lesson plans regularly, but must change teaching styles to adapt to new technologies that constantly appear. An engaged classroom is one that brings technology into the curriculum and uses it effectively. Today, computers are as essential as books as an integral part of both our educational and social lives.
Students expect to learn using computers.
There are additional values to bringing technology into the classroom. Changing how you teach gives you a new perspective on what you teach. There is no reason that technology should have to compete with traditional instructional formats. There is a place and a need for both. As educators learn to work with an increasingly diverse student population, it becomes necessary to address them in a variety of modalities.