The path toward tech instructional enlightenment...thorns of elitism?

I might have considered we students would be overwhelmed with new internet tools, applications, and tempting niceties, but the “Connectivism” animation kind of outlined the path I believe we are going to take. This path takes us lay students from fear and ignorance to having our students share their learning digitally with the technological world:

1. Build learning network
2. Practice finding online sites
3. Determine the credibility of the information
4. Use Google to find peer-reviewed articles
5. Social bookmark the sites I select
6. Finds others who bookmarked same sites
7. Next look at blogs which are opinions about the topic from like minded others
8. Based on what I have learned blog (and make recommendations) to others
9. Use a Reader to subscribe to blogs to know when information is updated
10. Use an MP3 player to record audio and video pod casts which are accessing courses
11. Access professors via podcasts
12. Video conference by Skyping with experts like we did in our face-to-face session
13. Teachers like to share expertise with students, so they might be asked to give a face-to-face
14. Have students summarize with video or audio their learning to the rest of the world

Seeing the mountain before us as a series of treks with smaller steps make the challenges attainable. But I wonder if:
* the technologically savvy instructors will be considered elitist by those who are either older (and did not learn ICT from their youth) or un-motivated,
* an even greater gap will develop between private and US public school education, or
* the standards of use of technology in instruction do not grow so fast that it leaves many good instructors struggling to keep up with the innovations and even newer developments.