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Education Special Section TECHNOLOGY in the CLASSROOM: CHANGING THE FUTURE OF TEACHING AND LEARNING Education Overview Education in the U.S. is continually growing due to changes in standards of learning, access to technology, and student-teacher interactions. Parents invest time and money into providing the earliest education to their young children, K-12 students are seeking out ways to incorporate their daily use of technology into their education, and higher education students are demanding more specialized learning opportunities; therefore, the overall state of education is not what it once was. Teachers are working to create a classroom that is engaging and best suited to capture the attention of its students and, with that, learning how best to incorporate the use of technology and resources for their students. “The way students learn, share ideas, get access to content, create, and collaborate is fundamentally different,” says Anthony Salcito, vice president of worldwide education at Microsoft. “Their mindsets are different, and the workplaces we are preparing them for are different, so we have to recognize there has been a lot of change. What we’ve now 22 724.942.0940 TO ADVERTISE ❘ icmags.com