Computer-based tools enable teachers to quickly generate individualized communications to parents, create programs and lesson plans, and sele ct instructional resources from an extensive resource database. Technology has the power to equalize learning opportunities. Through distance education, students and educators can be offered learning opportunities unavailable locally. Learning networks can transform our understanding of the school as a physical place. Students can have access to the same technical resources as industry, placing what they learn in a real-world context.
Technology provides students with a diverse audience.
Working in a small group at the computer can enhance learning. Students provide feedback and reinforcement to one another as they go about solving problems cooperatively. Current technologies address the weakness of a single sequence path and offer multiple paths to learning. Technology provides an entry point to content areas that might otherwise be inaccessible until much later along an academic path. For example, primar y students may become contributors to scientific research by tracking the migration patterns of Canada geese.