This approach may also speed learning by demonstrating to the teacher exactly how much instruction the children need. With new technologies, teachers frequently underestimate students' backgrounds, skills, and ability to learn. Many teachers think of learning to use technology as analogous to learning to read or learning mathematics. Children often grasp the use of technology more quickly than adults. Educators are striving to improve teaching and learning through the power of technology.
Technology adds the power of efficiency.
It is more efficient for children to write with a word processor than without one. There is power in having expanded access to information and a wider selection of data. There is power in the new ways that we can organize our classrooms. Computer workstations can engage one or more children in the classroom while the teacher works with others. However, we seem largely to ignore the affective power of technology in our classrooms.