Technology Toolkit: How Can We Already Be Left Behind When Nobody Told Us Where We Were Going

A seldom-publicized section of NCLB calls for “every student [to be] technologically literate by the time the student finishes the eighth grade, regardless of the student’s race, ethnicity, gender, family income, geographic location, or disability.” Yet standards, when they even exist, fail to define “technologically literate,” and those definitions that do exist are constantly being revised. Hayes offers no answers for this conundrum, but does give notice of a pending area on NCTE’s website where teachers will be invited to share their own solutions.