Technology’s Role in Transforming Education
Technology integration into classrooms across the country has taken on a new urgency. That’s a huge success for students and educators alike.
Technology integration into classrooms across the country has taken on a new urgency. That’s a huge success for students and educators alike.
The value that online education offers to students is undergoing a perception change.
The rapid changes in technology over the last 75 years have created enormous opportunities for education. Technology has also created some dangerous problems.
The untimely death of Steve Jobs provides an opportunity to reflect on the passing of an American icon and take some lessons from his extraordinary life. Steve Jobs had a passion for education. And his passion for education extended far beyond his famous speech at Stanford University.
In an educational arena where teaching to the test has become universally deplored, have SAT tests become just another glaring example of relics which continue to litter the education landscape?
We’re faced with a serious problem. And acknowledging it shouldn’t depend on one’s political leanings or personal philosophy.
When it comes to new technology adoption in the classroom, it’s almost always a good thing. We prize innovation when it comes to gadgets. I can’t think of a single technological advancement that hasn’t been good for students. But we seem to have a built-in resistance to structural innovation.
The Internet has changed how we communicate and talk to each other. But could it realistically replace the brick and mortar college campus as we know it today? Has this change already happened?