The chapter from Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age about the need for flexible instructional media speaks to standards we should be setting for ourselves as educators. If we overlook the specificities of traditional media and stick to the ways of conventional teaching, students who would benefit from digital media's power to compliment their learning may be missing the bigger picture.

Perhaps as we unfold the ways of the web and technology, becoming more comfortable with it ourselves, we will find ways to synthesize the available digital power with our respective core curriculums. Just as the author explains light and sound in its most basic form, teachers can easily revert to education in its most elementary level by soley learning from textbooks. To focus on reading, listening and talking without taking it to a digital level seems esoteric at the very least. With all that we have available today, why wouldn't a teacher want to delve into technology, serve as a model, a trendsetter, an agent of change.