Today's students are at risk of information overload, much of which is inert and unrelated to life as they are experiencing it. And too many classrooms persist in transmitting more if it.

Access to information must not be the purpose of schooling in today's world. Rather, it must be the intelligent use of information which supports the learning and teaching.

The urgent need is for an integrated framework within which our students can deal with the rich questions of life.

Such a framework enables students to integrate new knowledge with values, ideas and behaviour. The construction of such a framework for each person is the task of relevant and authentic education. Here is found the moral dimension of the curriculum.

The new social technologies can make a powerful contribution to the creation of meaning-centred frameworks. But this capacity is not intrinsic to any technology. We have to work on making the necessary connections in creative ways.

The educational challenge is not to employ more and more sophisticated technology for its own sake but to draw it purposefully into the service of asking better questions and finding better answers.

From our Catholic perspective, this is a major step towards evangelising the emerging technologies.