Technology is not the answer to our educational problems

I totally agree. There is no silver bullet or magic pill that is going to fix education. Back in 1918, Franklin Bobbitt in Chapter 6 of The Curriculum, made the following statements regarding the changes needed in the educational system of the day.

“As the world presses eagerly forward toward the accomplishment of new things, education also must advance no less swiftly It must provide the intelligence and the aspirations necessary for the advance; and for stability and consistency in holding the gains. Education must take a pace set, not by itself, but by social progress.”

He continues,

“Any inherited system, good for its time, when held to after its day, hampers social progress. It is not enough that the system, fundamentally unchanged in plan and purpose, be improved in details…And yet to do the nineteenth-century task better than it was then done is not necessarily to do the twentieth-century task.”

After reading these statements, I can see that they apply to the current situation in the educational system of the 21st-century. I would go as far as to change his last statement by changing the centuries. And yet to do the twentieth-century task better than it was then done is not necessarily to do the twenty-first-century task. Technology is a part of society and, therefore, is an integral part of the education system. We must have our students using technology to support creativity, communication, critical thinking, and collaboration. We must do the 21st-century tasks, which can only be done using technology.

This is a great read.

https://ajjuliani.com/rethinking-ed-techs-purpose-in-school/