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I was reading Romeo’s article and thinking about one of the main problems of technology that Plainville High didn’t seem to suffer from. That is the variety of formats, application software, interfaces (hard and soft), compatibility issues, different operating systems to name a few. I think this is the main barrier to use of technology by time poor teachers. The education industry needs to set up some standards for its’ tools of trade. The huge potential market for education technology products worldwide would drive adoption of these standards. An integral part of this would be ease of use and inter-operability of devices and software. This would be a challenging task, but with huge benfits to the adoption of new technology in classrooms.