A quote from 1992
Scott McLeod posted a quote from Schools for a New Century, a 1992 publication, last week on Big Think's Dangerously Irrelevant blog. I find this extremely sad that in nearly 20 years, we are still in the same place. We all know, just as we did in 1992, that technology is not in our schools at the level our students need it to be. Why is this still the case? As I come to the end of my Master's program in Educational Technology I find myself very frustrated by how resistant to change our schools are. Every other sector of our society embraces technological advances that keep them current, and our schools keep falling farther and farther behind. Aren't we the ones that are supposed to be preparing our students for life? Shouldn't we be the early adopter's of new technologies? Imagine the job we could be doing if we weren't stuck in the same mindset we were at the turn of the 20th Century!
I'm with Scott, "What's it going to take for us to start taking seriously the power and potential of learning technologies? How much more evidence do we need?"
It makes me want to scream!
Wake up!!!
Thanks for extending my post over here. Good stuff.
ReplyDeleteBest wishes as you finish your program. Keep your energy for change at the forefront and channel your 'scream' into your ed tech work and you'll do amazing things!