This report validates recent studies that show teachers to be the most critical element in instructional technology, ... Teachers must have access to both quality professional development and technical support if they are to unleash the power of technology to improve instruction.

Maybe because of video games and technology, teachers feel like we have to keep them moving and interested more.

I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs.

This industry is lagging behind others when it comes to technology, so it's taken a while for it to realize that there's not one integrated technology platform that will solve the problem. There are simply too many software providers out there to standardize the product, so we have to standardize the way they communicate with each other.

Students like technology, they love gadgets. So we've got a lot of reports that teachers and students think it's exciting.

This is the first time that these two giants in the industry have gotten behind advances in technology and standards in a big way.