Education Special Section
TECHNOLOGY
in the CLASSROOM:
CHANGING THE FUTURE OF
TEACHING AND LEARNING
Education Overview
Education in the U.S. is
continually growing due to
changes in standards of learning, access
to technology, and student-teacher
interactions. Parents invest time and
money into providing the earliest
education to their young children,
K-12 students are seeking out ways to
incorporate their daily use of technology
into their education, and higher
education students are demanding more
specialized learning opportunities;
therefore, the overall state of education
is not what it once was. Teachers are
working to create a classroom that is
engaging and best suited to capture the
attention of students and, with that,
learning how best to incorporate the use
of technology and resources for their
students.
“The way students learn, share
ideas, get access to content, create, and
collaborate is fundamentally different,”
says Anthony Salcito, vice president
of worldwide education at Microsoft.
“Their mindsets are different, and the
workplaces we are preparing them for are
different, so we have to recognize there
has been a lot of change. What we’ve now
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