Education is a tangle of purposes and functions that work together and sometimes apart. The realm of education includes skills, knowledge, judgement, wisdom, transfer of culture and socialization [Know]. These elements are difficult to measure both singly and as a group. Education is a complex system and the spectrum of stakeholders--internal, local, regional, national, private and public--compete to influence the behavior of any given sample of the system.

The rapid development of information and communication technology (ICT) has altered the media and communication landscape of the US and other developed nations. Education, as a component of society at large, has also been affected by developing ICT's. In this paper we look at the impact of ICT on some key elements of education: content, skills and assessment. We do not claim to make summary statements about the impact of ICT on education overall, but rather, to provide some samples of where ICT's have changed the priorities and values of the educational endeavor and how we assess them. In conclusion, we note that the sum of these specific impacts improves the behaviorist functions of education and enables cognitive development.

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