Technology

This weeks EW is all about Technology. I have some serious reservations about the ushering in of wide-sweeping tech changes. I'm not sure we're ready to use technology to engage our youth. I have expressed my concerns to some educators and they are not sure of any studies that can tell us about the pitfalls or, even the methods in which we might work on to adjust our teaching skills to account for new and ever evolving technology in our classrooms. Keven Bushweller does voice his concern about applications of technology in ways that would be universal so that schools, districts and maybe even nationally we are working to a standard. I do not believe that this exists today even at the school level.

As I read these articles for "Tailoring Math", "Personalizing Tests", and "The School of One" I am worried that managers see technology as some kind of Holly Grail that can fix the funding of teachers problem.

Listen, I don't have much of an education in education, maybe just enough to make my rants seem well, like rants, but I know that students learn and thrive on the information they receive from human beings, us, our interactions, our relationships, our styles. I think we must be

very careful in our approach toward the de-humanizing and de-socializing of our education system. I don't believe students will fare well in a "school of One." But, lets see if anyone has the will to study this assertion being made by a growing, yet still small, group?