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1-to-1 enables the teacher to do what she/he has always done: provide "pupils with something to do," move between whole-class instruction and student-directed work, and walk around the classroom providing scaffolding, nurturing, assessing, motivating and when necessary disciplining.

The number one technology skill any teacher — veteran or rookie —should learn is adaptability.

technology is evolving so quickly that a standard set of skills is hard to set in stone.

"We do have a sense of what [digital communication] skills should be," Kahne says. "The ability to find information, for example, has always been on the list. Also, the ability to judge the credibility of information. But now we're seeing things like the ability to present information online in compelling ways emerging as another basic skill of the digital citizen."

"One of the challenges and important priorities for K-12 today has to be broadening our understanding of what it means to be a digital citizen," says Joseph Kahne, Davidson professor of education at Mills College in Oakland, CA, and chairman of the MacArthur Network on Youth and Participatory Politics, "so that we're talking about young people as producers and managers of information and perspectives, and not simply as people we need to keep safe and civil."