Educational technology provides several benefits to learning including improved instructional effectiveness, active learning, critical thinking, cooperative learning, communication skills, and multisensory delivery. It is important for students to be conversant with technology as it shows improvements in writing, reading, math skills, and decreases dropout rates. While technology provides important tools to support knowledge construction, present ideas, and produce organized knowledge, not all teachers are comfortable using it and it can be expensive to maintain. Potential problems include distracting some students and lack of proper teacher training, but technology directly encourages learning when used to enhance lesson goals and objectives.