Reading #9

New Times Demand New Ways of Learning

This is one of the better articles that I've read addressing learning. There is a natural connection with technology and relevant styles of teaching. They acknowledge the testing culture in schools. I found it interesting that integration of technology does not translate into higher test scores. I also found their definitions good, they seemed more scientific and less teacher centered.

I think that in a number of ways we are up against a lot. All schools care about are higher test scores. If you can't prove that technology can raise test scores then you can't get schools to move in using it. I believe that despite the merits of testing and its implications on students learning that technology can help raise test scores. Any time you can demonstrate something through media and give students a chance to teach what they have learned through technology then you do two things. One you have more differentiated instruction and two students really learn something when they have to teach it, even to a computer.