In most cases, schooling has become a process for understanding, retaining, and reporting what is found on the printed page. Teachers need an 'attitude' that is fearless in the use of technology, encourages them to take risks, and inspires them to become lifelong learners. This is not a time when teacher education programs can confidently predict how technology will change the profession. The problem will be greatly compounded if those teachers entering the profession now and in the future have not been adequately prepared to use new technology. The first is a subject, the second, a tool.
Technological literacy is much more than knowledge of computers and their application.
It involves a vision where each citizen has a level and ability to use, manage, and understand technology. Technological processes and systems have become so complex that the ad hoc approach has clearly failed for most Americans. Most do not even begin to comprehend the basic concepts of today's technological society. Few know how to decide what, how, and when to develop or use various technological systems.