Education and The Internet

I have been out of High School for years now, but have used the Internet extensively in my studies at RCC. I'm really not sure that you could pursue a higher education today without access to the internet. It is needed for everything. I have used it for Flo classes, research purposes, and to be able to communicate back and forth with my professors and fellow students.
In five years, I'm not sure lower education and the internet will change much.While some public high schools now provide laptops for every student, money is still the big issue. Some private schools already require them. Computers are expensive, but I have been seeing articles lately about new computers that are coming out that are relatively inexpensive.Until this country really gets serious about its children and their educations, I'm afraid computer access and the internet on a daily basis for education will probably be limited to some library use or computer classes much as they are now.
There are lots of changes that need to be made in education with the first being that people in this country need to realize that the children are our future and by future, I mean our leaders, inventors, and caregivers. They need to be educated.Education takes money and in schools, money comes from taxes.Taxes are the first thing the average citizen gripes about, but for better or worse, our world is now one of technology. If we are to keep up and compete along with connecting and understanding people of other nation's and cultures, our children need to be computer literate and internet savvy.In order to connect the different peoples and nations on an academic level, it is almost as if a curriculum needs to be established on a world level.It would be created so that all students would have the same level of understanding and knowledge in order to function later on in the world much like all students learn the same basic math, reading, and writing principles.