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This shift presents an opportunity to educators. We aren’t professionals with clear-cut job descriptions or miniature technocrats micromanaging our classrooms, after all. Our job is to lead young learners to new heights of understanding and achievement. The future of education isn’t in finding the best way to get all students to pass the same test. It’s in using the connections that technology enables to leverage the social capital of ­communities and inspire children to dream, innovate and create. Here in Baltimore, we are working to build a center where technology is respected for what it is: a way to connect our students to our city’s ­future. The Digital Harbor Foundation is currently developing a nonprofit hub that will connect teachers to vital professional development in relevant tech integration, and that will connect students to real-life projects that ­engage with the local community. Our goal is to demolish the digital divide and to empower those students currently most underserved. Through project-based learning and reverse mentoring — where the students themselves teach their teachers and parents — we want to see students identify themselves as 21st century citizens who will actively take part in the rebirth of their own city. What we are creating will not only take advantage of the shift, but will empower our kids to take advantage of it. These kids are going to own the shift.