These are some examples meant to make you ecstatic about the possibilities to make education work better with the aid of the newest technologies.
My former high school, in collaboration with EducaTablet, has recently embarked on a very ambicious project: replacing school textbooks with tablet computers (links are in Spanish). Since students only need to pay for one-year licenses and tablet prices are going down, the total cost of the materials that a student will need to cover are expected to be lower over time. They expect to have teachers code their own interactive simulations in subjects like chemistry or physics, or maps and diagrams in other subjects, to complement the learning experience.
This is a massive real world experiment going on at UPenn's online course on introductory calculus. Freshman students typically struggle with these new concepts. Is it possible that presenting the material in innovative ways made possible by today's technology has an impact on learning? It will be exciting to find out.
A truly inspiring demonstration of how students might develop an intuition for differential equations in the future. Simulation isn't everything, but it can help us understand beyond the symbols.
Books that deal in subjects so dense and scientifically challenging as global warming were usually either full of scientific jargon or crammed with half-truths aiming to simplify everything for the reader. Could interactivity take us all, not only the scientifically inclined, closer to understanding? I want to live in that future.