What Are the Challenges?

• Schools must acquire sufficient technologies to permit students to undertake real–world projects and work collaboratively to create products and presentations.

• School leaders must be encouraged to support project–based instruction and new ways of assessing the outcomes of such approaches to instruction.

• The competencies listed in the SCANS Report (such as “workers integrate information and convert information from one form to another”) must be adapted for and integrated into the curriculum, and schools must establish rubrics for accomplishing these competencies through the application of technology.

• SCANS competencies must be inculcated as goals for all preservice teachers, and colleges of education must ensure that preservice teachers are taught how to use technology to achieve them.

• There must be a dialogue between school and community workplace leaders so that school learning goals are aligned with community goals for economic development.

• Companies must be recruited in the hopes of establishing mutually beneficial partnerships between workplace and school.