Monday, October 31, 2011

The future of eduation

Where is the future of education headed! We have continued to ignore the impact that big corporations are having on how we're teaching our children in the classrooms today. Technology is a beautiful and awesome addition in our society today. However, how much are the children benefiting from this massive rush of technology in the classrooms and does it compare to the social and personal skills that they are sacrificing. Technology has moved into our lives so quickly I am not sure people still know how to talk to each other in person. How many students actually read a book and what happened to studying grammar in the classrooms? Just recently I spoke with a 12th grader who was about to graduate from high-school that told me he never really studied grammar and did I have a grammar book that he could borrow! Don't get me wrong I am all for technology in the classrooms today but, we can't allow big corporations to dictate to our schools just when and how much of it teachers should use to teach.