Electronic School Magazine, June 1998, p. A14
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David Thornburg, senior fellow at the Congressional Institute for the Future, theorizes how emerging technologies are going to impact the future of education and how they can address social issues such as salary gaps, information gaps, and the continuing mergers/downsizing of Fortune 500 companies.
According to Thornburg, the key developments in technology that are going to (and already do) impact education most are:
Given this continued technology growth, Thornburg charges schoolsfrom the pre-K to college levelto strive for not only computer-literate students, but also “computer-fluent students” who can sit down and work a computer as easily as they can read a book.