Classrooms of the Future

The video "Classrooms of the Future" discusses the importance of students being equipped with the knowledge of how to use technology. Pennsylvania spent $200,000,000 to provide every high school student with a laptop. It is believed that every student who leaves high school, should have the information necessary on how to use and work with a laptop. At an event, one attendee asked a panel of presenters "How are laptops changing instruction?" The panel responded by revealing that technology offers a way to differentiate the instruction for each and every student, in a way in which they were unable to do so before. Technology is a huge part of the lives of today's students. We live in a world in which we can not imagine technology without, so why wouldn't technology be incorporated into the classroom? Technology has become an important tool used to engage the minds of students. Technology is very prevalent in everyday life, so it is important that teachers treat technology as another skill they need to better equip their students to enter the "real world." In the video "Changing Education Paradigm," Sir Ken Robinson states "The current education system was designed and conceived for a different age." I find this statement to be very true, and that the education system should always stay up to date and current. This is why teachers need to involve technology in their classroom, because it is a very current method of learning and acquiring information.