High Performing Teachers with Low-Tech Classrooms
The title is not a joke or a poke in the eyes of techno-enthusiasts, believe me. Writer Amanda Ripley visited classrooms around the world and found that the best ones–her opinion–are low-tech. Specifically, she cites South Korea and Finland, countries that outscore the U.S. in international tests, as having low-tech classrooms. In South Korea, she cites one student who described her room having a few old computers, an overhead projector, and well, that’s the extent of the “new” technologies.
She then quotes an expert on European schools about the lack of technological innovations in schools around the world:
“ ‘In most of the highest-performing systems, technology is remarkably absent from classrooms,’ says Andreas