I would agree with Mark and Nancy. As a class we focused on the direct effects that technology have on the education, or to be precise, on the way the activities in the classroom have changed. We have missed critical indirect effects that technology might have on education. Education is changing the society, politics and possibly our values & norms and these changes will indirectly cause a recursive chain of changes (Technology changes society which changes politics which changes Education with in turn changes society etc.)

I would like to focus on two points:
[1] Technology will influence & change society’s values. These inturn will change the public opinion about Education. The trend i foresee is that the public will want to have a direct influence of how education is conducted and the policies & constraints that frames education. I foresee that public opinion will play a big part in governing the country: it’s laws, policies & budget. Government will be under pressure to empower the people to propose & vote for laws, policies etc.

[2] As a class, we forgot to consider the social goals that an education institute has beyond its economic & epistemic goals. Martin Luther King said that the ‘Goal is Education is not Intelligence but Character”. Technology MAY be taking away opportunities for the teacher to instill those values to a K12 students if it decreases the amount of face to face contact hours a teacher have with the student. How much values can be instilled for distance education? Imagine if a K12 student is perfectly able to use a PC and navigate the internet, would you send this student for a distance education? I think that while discussing the positive effects of how technology is influencing education, we must not forget the main goal of education else we might find ourselves in a future that we ended up regretting.
“Education without values only makes man a clever devil” – C.S. Lewis