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• opposing interests and capabilities (specific sociocultural differences and similarities between the parties),
  
• contact and salience (awareness),
  
• significant change in the balance of powers,
  
• individual perceptions and expectations,
  
• a disrupted structure of expectations,
  
• a will-to-conflict.

Professor Landfeldt, one of Australia's leading
telecommunications experts, says some of the fundamental flaws of
the scheme raised in his report include:

� All filtering systems will be easily circumvented using
readily available software.

� Censors maintaining the blacklist will never be able to
keep up with the amount of new content published on the web every
second.

� Filters using real-time analysis of sites to determine
whether content is inappropriate are not effective, capture wanted
content, are easy to bypass and slow network speeds exponentially
as accuracy increases.

� Entire user-generated content sites such as YouTube and
Wikipedia could be blocked over a single video or article.

� Filters would be costly and difficult to implement for
ISPs and put many smaller ISPs out of business.

� While the communciations authority's blacklist would be
withheld from internet users, all 700 ISPs would have access to it,
so it could easily be leaked.

� The filters would not censor content on peer-to-peer
file sharing networks such as LimeWire, chat rooms, email and
instant messaging;

� ISPs and the Government could be legally liable for the
scheme's failures, particularly as content providers have no right
to appeal against being blocked unnecessarily.

Making schools more engaging and relevant (thereby helping reduce the disastrous high school dropout rates in many districts);

• Providing high-quality schooling for all students (including English-language learners and students with disabilities);

• Attracting, preparing, and retaining high-quality teachers;

• Increasing support for children from parents and the community; and

• Requiring accountability for results (including providing more information about schools to policymakers and the public).

Educators need to consider how digital tools are used to help achieve each of these goals, because transforming schools requires attention to all six, not only one.