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The teacher's role changes as well. The teacher is no longer the center of attention as the dispenser of information, but rather plays the role of facilitator, setting project goals and providing guidelines and resources, moving from student to student or group to group, providing suggestions and support for student activity.

Students, even at the elementary school level, are able to acquire an impressive level of skill with a broad range of computer software

But even when each student has a computer, teachers note an increased frequency of students helping each other.

For a generation of young people, technology, particularly the Internet, has assumed a substantial stake in their social and educational lives

In my technical document design class, I experienced the best use of technology in a class: hands-on, experimental, and interactive.

Modern technologies are very powerful because they rely on one of the most powerful genetic biases we do have — the preference for visually presented information. The human brain has a tremendous bias for visually presented information. Television, movies, videos, and most computer programs are very visually oriented and therefore attract and maintain the attention of young children. The problem with this is that many of the modern technologies are very passive. Because of this they do not provide children with the quality and quantity of crucial emotional, social, cognitive, or physical experiences they require when they are young. The developing child requires the right combination of these experiences at the right times during development in order to develop optimally. This cannot happen if the child is sitting for hours passively watching television.