Comments on: The Missing Link in Today’s Technology Education http://www.teleread.com/tech/technology-education-the-missing-link/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Thu, 23 May 2013 19:21:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Laura Brady http://www.teleread.com/tech/technology-education-the-missing-link/comment-page-1/#comment-1230063 Laura Brady Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:58:31 +0000 http://www.teleread.com/?p=76941#comment-1230063 The curriculum is changing organically at the school and classroom level -- sometimes with the fundraising support of parent groups, sometimes with creative financing at the school level. My Grade 3 son blogs regularly to his classmates, is creating comic strips online, and contributes to a classroom wiki. My Grade 7 son is learning to code as a result of an interest in video games, and submitted his last English project as an eBook. Now clearly, I am supportive but so are his teachers. That said, I completely agree that curriculum is hopelessly out of date. But my sense is that teachers understand that failing. The curriculum is changing organically at the school and classroom level — sometimes with the fundraising support of parent groups, sometimes with creative financing at the school level. My Grade 3 son blogs regularly to his classmates, is creating comic strips online, and contributes to a classroom wiki. My Grade 7 son is learning to code as a result of an interest in video games, and submitted his last English project as an eBook. Now clearly, I am supportive but so are his teachers.

That said, I completely agree that curriculum is hopelessly out of date. But my sense is that teachers understand that failing.

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