10 Things in School That Should Be Obsolete in Schools

Greg Stock:

So much about how and where kids learn has changed over the years, but the physical structure of schools has not. Looking around most school facilities -- even those that aren't old and crumbling - it's obvious that so much of it is obsolete today, and yet still in wide use.

1. COMPUTER LABS. Students are connected to the Internet everywhere except in school. Regardless of their income bracket, most kids carry around a world of information in their pockets on their mobile devices, and yet we force them to power down and disconnect, and we confine them in obsolete computer labs. A modern school needs to have connectivity everywhere and treat computers more like pencils than microscopes.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at August 6, 2012 3:39 AM
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