1. Students learn and develop at different rates. Technology can individualize instruction, from the at-risk to the gifted and talented.

2. Students must be proficient at accessing, evaluating, and communicating information. Educational technologies can encourage students to raise searching questions, enter debates, formulate opinions, engage in problem solving and critical thinking, and test their views of reality.

3. Technology can foster an increase in the quantity and quality of students' thinking and writing. One of the best documented successes with computers in education is in development of student writing. Word processors make students feel that they are "real" writers.

4. Students must solve complex problems. Higher level process skills cannot be "taught" in the traditional sense; They cannot be transferred directly from the teacher to the learner. Students need to develop these skills, for themselves, with proper guidance. Computer productivity tools engage students in focused problem solving, allowing them to work through what they want to accomplish, quickly test and retest solution strategies, and immediately display the results.

5. Technology can nurture artistic expression. Technology-based art forms provide communication for students who have been constrained by traditional options of communication. They increase motivation and foster creative problem solving.

6. Students must be globally aware and able to use resources that exist outside the school. Technological tools used in telecommunication allow students to inexpensively and instantly reach around the world, learning first-hand about other cultures and current events around the world.

7. Technology creates opportunities for students to do meaningful work. Technology can provide a widespread audience for students' work. They can link students to the world, provide new reasons to write, and offer new sources of ideas.

8. All students need access to high-level and high interest courses. Electronic media can bring experiences and information previously unimaginable by students into the classroom. Laser discs and CD-ROMs put thousands of images and topics at the students' fingertips.

9. Students must feel comfortable with the tools of the Information Age. Computers and technology are an increasingly important part of the world in which students live.

10. Schools must increase their productivity and efficiency.

Why Use Technology?, Kyle Peck and Denise Dorricot, Educational Leadership, April 1994, p. 11-14.