A Sentence That Sticks
"Tools drive science. Not theory; not experiment; it's the tools."

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This really all comes down to Marxism. That might be the most pretentious thing I have ever typed. I would say blogged, but I have never blogged. Until now.

I suppose the place to start, however, is the purpose of education. I don't want to suggest it is to make it so your student can earn a high paying job in the Wall Street District, but that's all I got, so I will go with it. For me, education (not schooling) is a mix of high level critical thinking, individual creativity and the ability to reach a state of compassion. Sure the MCAS doesn't gage compassion, but it understandable since there are so many other questions to get to: what is Na on the periodic table? What is the capital of Iowa?

If technology can expressly provide us with these very answers, it demonstrates schooling and edcuation are two very different. As Mark Twain once said:

   

Though teachers may be "dangerously irrelevant" in terms of schooling, there is still a major purpose for them in the educational realm. A teacher's ability to facilitate high level critical thinking, individual creativity and the ability to achieve a state of compassion is something that technology will have trouble touching.