ABSTRACT
In education, many people whose opinions are widely respected are resolutely opposed to new information technology. No matter how versatile the hardware technology may become, education depends on high quality software and course-ware, which will not be available in sufficient quantity and variety. The second fundamental problem perceived by many educators is that we simply do not know enough about the interrelationships of learning from different media. The third problem is again bound up with teachers’ attitudes rather than those of parents or the general public, yet it is a problem common to many fields of innovation. The last two problems (new elitism and weakened public educational systems) are of substantial interest to only a few researchers and politicians, and unfortunately are dismissed by many as scaremongering and speculation.
