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"America's reputation as an international leader rests in the hands of our youth," said Sen. Chris Dodd. "It should be among our top priorities to provide our students with the tools they need to maintain and build upon this standing." The Senator was one of the original sponsors of a bill that proposed the setting up of the centre. Meanwhile Congressman John Yarmuth of Kentucky spearheaded the passage of the bill through the House and said its timing could not be more critical. "American businesses know that they need a well-educated workforce to face growing competition from China, India and Europe." The Federation of American Scientists said, "The creativity that developed extraordinary new information technologies has not focused on finding ways to make learning more compelling, more personal and more productive in our nation's schools. Education has not kept pace with technological advances said the FAS "People assumed that the explosion of innovation in information tools in business and service industries would automatically move into classrooms." That, the Federation said, has simply not happened.

En Italia, la joven Ministra de Educación, ha establecido que en los próximos cinco años la escuela primera y secundaria ofrezca en formato electrónico los antiguos libros de texto.

los nuevos medios digitales traerán consigo la posibilidad de que profesores y alumnos establezcan una relación más dinámica con los contenidos que  hayan de tratar, una relación necesariamente más activa, más interactiva, porque los contenidos no tendrán ya que mostrarse de manera estática en un libro en papel, sino que se convertirán en objetos digitales dinámicos manipulables y parametrizables.

Tendremos que andar vigilantes, cómo no, para valorar qué clase de capacidades ganamos y cuáles otras perdemos -como no se cansa de repetir el mismo Landow.

One of the tasks which ed tech coordinators are landed with is cajoling other teachers to use the technology in their lessons. And not just in a one-off or a tokenistic way, either. No! You’re expect to persuade them, somehow, that this is the way of the future and that they should therefore cast aside all their old, non-techie teaching methods and step into this brave new world.

Fundamentally, what you need to have in order to succeed as an ed tech coordinator, is not so much a technical understanding of computers, but an intuitive understanding of people.

I reasoned that nobody in, say, the English department would listen to me telling them how they could improve their teaching of English if they used the right software or device. But they probably would listen to one of their co-workers in the same department.