How technology in school enhances student achievement.

Teaching and learning strategies have changed over the last few decades. The integration of technology in the average classroom has become more widespread. With continuing advances in information technology and demands for more than two million new teachers this decade, there is a clear need for ongoing innovation in integrating technology in teacher education. Classrooms across the country have at least one computer and more and more classrooms have student and teacher workstations. As a classroom tool, the computer has captured the attention of the education community. This instrument can store, manipulate, and retrieve information, and it has the capability not only of engaging students in classroom activities to increase their learning, but helping solve complex problems to enhance their cognitive skills. Lessons are becoming more and more computer based and students are expected to be computer literate at much younger ages then before. How will these new and innovative approaches to student learning continue to shape the future of education for decades to come?