ABSTRACT
Can school districts, states, universities, and industry design plans for technology that support its effective use in education? How do these groups cope with the many frustrations, trade-offs, conflicting demands, sudden advances, and outrageous costs? Some advocate waiting until leaders from business, industry, government, computer science, or some other group create an ideal plan for education. We must resist these tempting invitations to give up in frustration or defer to “experts” in some other field. We all have seen well-meaning yet woefully inappropriate “solutions” for education, some even naively asserting that technology can replace teachers altogether. We need, instead, to take the planning process seriously and actively plan, analyze, and replan in partnership with leaders from relevant fields.
