Why Public Education Must Integrate Information Technology

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(Layton 1).
There is also a need to provide the teachers and students time together when and where it is most needed. Currently we have very rigidly structured school days. Often this rigid structure will interrupt a dynamic lesson, or leave a student with nothing to do while the rest of the class finishes. To maximize each student's time and each teacher's interactions with their students, we need a flexible, demand driven, schedule. Where each student can get her individual needs met while maximizing the efficient use of the teacher's time (Alcorn 1).
As science has been discovering how the human mind works, we have learned a lot about learning. Expecting every student to respond equally to the same type of learning environment is not realistic. To achieve the best results it is necessary to create an individual curriculum for every student. In order to be able to even approach this goal the school will have to use technology to track each student's work, communicate with the ...

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student is unwilling, or unable, to continue in school. This would require a system that would track a student's learning through many years and many different locations. This system could be a major step towards a life long educational system.
Public schools would be able to extend their learning environment beyond the walls of the building, with students working at home and in the community, only coming to the school when there was a need for face to face interactions.
The other major reason that public education needs to take advantage of technology is that our world is changing. This change is being lead by an economic change from an industrial economy to an information economy. ...

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