David Pesanelli

In the following viewpoint, David Pesanelli argues that new technologies will revolutionize learning in the future. Students of the twenty-first century, Pesanelli maintains, will use both state-of-the-art and less sophisticated learning modules designed to meet students’ changing needs. Two scenarios of the future are narrated by Pesanelli on the classroom of the future to give readers a sense of his concept of twenty-first-century learning. Pesanelli believes that the electronic school of the future will allow learning at home, in education centers, or at work. Pesanelli is an advanced planner who heads his own conceptual design company in Rockville, Maryland.

As you read, consider the following questions:

1. How will new technologies change the learning experience in twenty-first-century America, in Pesanelli’s opinion?
2. What does the author mean by the term “Plug-In...