Way down deep in this IndyStar article on how hard schools have to work to keep cellphones, ipods and other technology from being used at school is this sentence:
A few teachers in some other districts are exploring the educational opportunities of the devices at their schools.
The disconnect is appalling between the new generation that has grown up with communications technology and the industry trying to educate them by forbidding the use of that technology. The disconnect that has already caused is that students have cut loose from taking school instruction as serious learning. They view it as a test-taking routine instead of learning the real world knowledge.
The goal of education is to to connect students to knowledge; for those now school age that will be done via technology over their lifetime. They know it. A few teachers do too. via Edutopia News
December 13th, 2005 at 9:40 am
December 13th, 2005 at 10:40 am