Technology in Future Schools

I agree and I disagree with this article. I find the article out dated. I think that if the author could have gone into the future at the time he wrote the article to find what schools are doing today he would be shocked. Schools are moving toward a technological school. More and more teachers are using computers not only to learn about computers but also to learn within subject area. Schools are moving toward charter school models and small school models which relate closer to his idea of the technological school. Many schools across America have a laptop for every student to use in every subject and I think that model is spreading. He viewed schools as only have the historical ways of teaching from a text with questions and practice and then a test as a rock that will be hard to roll away. Yet we are doing that already. I have been out of high school for seven years and yet I was graded on my ability to make powerpoint presentations and videos. In the schools right now students are being graded on their ability to make websites and animations that relate to the topic they are studying. Also many schools are moving to a block scheduling, where students are in the classroom for about 90 min with a teacher for one subject and have about four classes a day. Personally I think this is the model we need to be reaching for in our public high schools. This gives the teachers time to be more in-depth, to get out into the community and do something. The fifty minute classes are soon to be in the past and I think we are advancing a lot quicker than the author ever anticipated.