images-1.jpegThat’s the title of an article in The Huffington Post today. It’s written by Morgan E. Arenson, program officer for digital media and learning initiatives at the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Here’s a snippet from the beginning:

American schools can expect transformation on an unprecedented scale in the coming decades. Today, schools are out of date. They work on an industrial model, which is built around students taught in lockstep, rather than a technological one, which focuses on individual students and connects them to their learning materials, to each other, and to their teachers in new ways. Schools today do not take into account the changing professional world that more than ever relies both on individual effort and networked teams. In an increasingly competitive global economy, American students are not performing well compared to those in many other nations. And rather than harnessing technologies that have become ubiquitous in young people’s lives, American schools often avoid or even forbid them

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