21st C. Tools, 21st C. Schools: Headware not Hardware for Digital Learners- Ian Jukes & Frank Kelly
Wow ! Now you’re talking!
Think about...”how does technology impact teaching?” and then “how does teaching impact on technology?”
Is technology the problem or is it the way we teach?
“Education is the largest industry in the U.S. yet it’s education system still releases their students for 3 months of the year over Summer to tend to the crops!
Whilst the U.S. government claims “no child shall be left behind” to the educators it’s more like, “no child shall be left untested”. Our students are fundamentally and neurologically different to the generations before them, they engage in the world differently to us. New figures out just this week in the U.S. state that a student drops out of school every 9 seconds, yet if schools were run as a business and had a failure rate of 1% it would be unacceptable...yet in the U.S. 35% is still accepted.
In our digital and wired world students learn differently and if governments and schools continue to focus on standardised testing it forces schools and teachers away from individualised teaching. Why are governments using standardised testing to measure non-standard brains?”
“In Texas the prison system, looks to the Grade 3 reading scores each year to forecast the number of beds they will require in ten years time!”
If we had had technology first we wouldn’t ever have built class rooms or even schools like they are now, corridors, rows of desks etc. Have a think about it, what does it look like?
“With technology the teacher is not the only source of information, with technology time is irrelevant so we need to worry more about outcomes. Open plan schools failed in the U.S. not because of the design but because the teachers couldn’t adapt. The most powerful tool in the classroom is still the teacher and any teacher that can be replaced by a computer- deserves to be!”
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