Computer illiteracy could block admission to Oregon universities. There are some reasons for optimism. They will fill vacancies as technological dinosaurs retire. It will take years before the new teachers know as much about curriculum and teaching methods as their predecessors, but the technology will speed the adjustment. The hopeful signs don't justify failing to tie teacher training tightly to the technology budgets.
Technology can help students achieve educational liftoff.
Students will steer the computers, but they won't get far without master navigators. Robert Landauer is editorial columnist of The Oregonian.