We expect them to do digital high jumps, broad jumps and sprints. We present them with a digital decathlon that will challenge the best of them. There is no risk here of a digital divide. Our students are fully accomplished digerati even before reaching high school. They know their way around the digital landscape and will graduate with plenty of digital capital as well as intellectual capital.
Students leave here with the digital equivalent of stock options.
Sometimes the real story is embedded as subtext - lines of truth running like footnotes under the official version. Planning for robust, integrated use of new technologies in regular classrooms is distinct from planning their installation. This is about keeping up with the school district next door. They networked before we did, so now we race to do it bigger and better. The superintendent is off presenting at some national technology conference announcing all kinds of amazing achievements - students learning anywhere and anytime.