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Unit one Section A Comprehension 1. Relatively unchanging teaching styles versus children’s access to a range of media. 2. Education will be organized largely around the computer. Computers will permit a degree of individual instruction. All students may receive a curriculum tailored to their needs, learning style, pace and record of success with earlier materials and lessons. 3. It is a blessing because it makes delivery of information instantaneous; it is a curse on the other hand, because there are no reliable ways to distinguish sense from the distorted facts and downright nonsense common on the Net. 4. New technology enables education to be more individualized. Also, the pace of technological change means that the old vocational education model of preparing people for a single lifetime job is no longer adequate. 5. Because individuals will be able to educate themselves and exhibit their competence in a simulated setting. 6. Medical technologies, biological technologies among others. 7. They will permit study of students’ brain activity and blood flow as they engage in various kinds of problem-solving or creative activities. 8. Because they may change our definitions of what it means to be a human being, and to be a part of human society. 9. Their opinions vary. Some authorities will insist that these findings be applied in specific cases, while others will vigorously object to any decisions made on the basis of genetic information. 10. He believes that the explosion of knowledge calls for a revolution in education, but conservatism is not necessarily evil. With respect to the transmission of values and the teaching of certain subjects, a conservative approach may well be called for. Vocabulary III 1—6 prevalent, permeated, decisive, inherent, literally, blessing 7---12 literacy, mingled, distorted, formidable, precedent, certified IV 1---6 hunt down, absorbed into, have access to, with the exception of, for that matter, in the absence of 7---12 with r