Teachers and Technology: Making the Connection, a report from the Office of Technology Assessment (1995), cites many examples of how technology has enhanced teaching and learning:

Students engaged in a group problem-solving project based on a software or video simulation are learning to work as a team, develop expertise in specific areas, become more confident learners, and weigh the merits of several possible solutions.

Teachers involved in an international telecommunications project find their students acquiring a new interest in geography, and bonding with students across the globe or in the different world that exists even on the other side of town.

With graphing software, students appear to develop a deeper understanding of mathematical concepts for which they had learned the formulas but had not applied them consistently.

Special education students, mainstreamed into regular classrooms, work on a more equal basis with their classmates when a computer speaks for them, gives them big print, or adjusts to their difficulties.

Students who were on the verge of dropping out take a new interest in school when, as part of a class project, they interview other students with camcorders and create daily news shows.

Using CD-ROM, students research a multimedia term paper, evaluating resources from print, video, and audio media.

After the teacher downloads satellite pictures of daily weather patterns, student use a network to compare their weather data with weather data reported by students around the country, analyzing trends and predicting likely conditions.

A scientist working on cancer research can come on-line and advise students setting up a science project on molecular biology.