Response to "Learning to Change Changing to Learn"

I suppose we should start with that fact mentioned early in the video: the amount of IT in American Education is less than the It found in the coal mining industry. This is despite the fact that we are in the most technologically advanced time in all of human history. That, to me, seems tremendously problematic. I think we tend to take for granted the way instruction is done because we've all gone through schools who've been using the same instructional strategies for decades. It becomes hard to imagine alternatives ways for instruction to possibly happen. It's almost as if inertia has set in.

This video reminded me of the Ken Robinson videos from the "Must View Videos" post. Those videos and this one here are discussing how the outdated structures of the education system are beginning to rub up against the realities of this Digital Age we're living in.

The fact is that students don't enjoy testing, and I don't think they're actually getting anything useful from all the standardized testing we keep piling on them. Education is at its best when it's using the content to inform students about the world and to make them thinkers and problem solvers capable of taking on the world. Technology is one way we can potentially achieve that goal.