The only way that technology can work in today's classrooms in through human interaction with technology. The technology alone is just not enough. However, even though the solution is uncomplicated in nature, it will still take time and money to implement. The current situation is no longer be tolerated; the socio-economic gap between students in private and public schools is further perpetuating the technological advances between the two groups of students. This implications are the hardest to deal with pertaining to this issue. Realizing that this will not happen overnight, if any at all, advances should still be attempted. Otherwise, the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer. Not only implying finanical setbacks, but perhaps the most deterimental repercussions, technological setbacks. As technology is the wave of today and the future, is this what the world will be looking to as its future?
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