Introduction

"We have an //unprecedented opportunity// to reform our schools. With this technology plan, ... We have laid out a comprehensive vision for how teachers working with technology can transform student learning in classrooms across America. We must dramatically improve teaching and learning, personalize instruction and ensure that the educational environments we offer to all students keep pace with the 21st century." Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education media type="custom" key="10992066" align="center"

"Our learning institutions, for the most part, are acting as if the world has not suddenly, irrevocably, cataclysmically, epistemically changed - and changed precisely in the area of learning." --Cathy N. Davidson and David Theo Goldberg "Future of Learning Institutions", 2009 @http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm

Connecting and learning with two billion strangers, required to make sense of huge flows of information and creating and sharing their knowledge with the world. That is their reality; it wasn't ours. The NCTE ( [|National Education Tech Plan] ) knows it.