Double Entry Journal 8

The way we are educating is based on nineteenth-century ideas and methods. Here we are, entering the twenty-first century, and you look at our schools and ask, 'Why are we doing things in this ancient way?' Our system of education is locked in a time capsule. You want to say to the people in charge, 'You're not using today's tools! Wake up!'


Education today just isn't where it needs to be. I agree with George Lucas when he says that our education is like living in the past. I remember when I was a Junior and Senior in high school that we hardly ever used any technology in the classroom unless I was actually in a technology or computer class. Schools just aren't using the technologies that are available to them, this is probably in part to the lack of money in the budget for new technologies, but maybe then some money from other parts should be diverted to technologies because if students do not know how to use the materials that they will be using in the workforce then how will they survive. Therefore education needs to shift out of ancient ways and join the modern era, and give students the proper education they need.





Works Cited


Daly, J. (2004, September 14). Life on the screen: visual literacy in education . Retrieved from http://www.edutopia.org/lucas-visual-literacy


https://hamiltonrentals.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/technology-in-the-classroom-from-ipad-to-laptop-rentals/