We worry about our schools becoming ineffective when we should be afraid that they will become irrelevant. A blunt, but accurate way of saying that the time for incremental school reform is past. If schools do not undergo radical reform, they will simply cease to exist as the primary source for education. Already, the staple of schools information is more widely and easily available outside school than it is within school.
Schools are also slow to respond to the communication revolution.
However the technological changes happening in the world outside school are not, in and of themselves, the most powerful reason for school reform. It is easy to assume that technology is some kind of magic bullet that will cure all of education s problems. However, educational technology has been around for at least twenty years. Despite these expenditures, experts agree that technology has not lived up to its promise of reforming education. The good news is that the technology itself is not the problem only the way in which it is used or not used in schools.