of the school of education at San Jose State University in the heart of Silicon Valley, she confronted both her resistance to technology and the need to prepare prospective teachers for the classrooms of tomorrow.
As a classroom teacher, Tom Snyder found most educational software to be little more than electronic workbooks, so he formed his own company to produce award-winning, best-selling software programs designed to strengthen the interaction between teachers and students.
Those at the local level often feel isolated and uncertain about technology and how to use it. They find little help or guidance from the national or state level.
Joe Kirkman represent dramatic exceptions.
Kirkman is a state policymaker in Kentucky who is overseeing one of the nation's most ambitious planning efforts to coordinate the use of technology in all of the state's schools.
For Tana Holloway and her fellow students in America's schools, technology's potential remains tantalizingly out of reach. “It has the potential to be something enormous,” says consultant Mecklenburger, “but it also has the potential to dry up and blow away.”
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