How Education Fails Technology (And What to Do About It)

Posted on January 23, 2012 Edtech Digest

SHIFT PARADIGM | by Mark E. Weston

During the past two decades many technologies have entered our lives. They brought with them lofty expectations for transformation of classrooms and schools. Implicit in such expectations was a belief that teachers and students with access to and mastery of technology would transform education.

While some evidence suggests that the personal lives of teachers and students may have changed as a result of new technologies, little evidence shows that their education lives have changed much. Technology has exerted little overall effect on educational settings and the teaching and learning in them. Student achievement test scores remain flat, school completion rates have not declined, and instruction is still mostly teacher-led in classrooms with neat-rowed desks. The minimal effect that technology has had on teaching and learning is a failure of the field of education not a failure of technology. For the rest of the article see:

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