Friday, June 10, 2011

No More PCs, No More Books, No More Teachers’ Dirty Looks? | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

No More PCs, No More Books, No More Teachers’ Dirty Looks? | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

No More PCs, No More Books, No More Teachers’ Dirty Looks?

Two pictures capture the future of desktop computers in schools and the eventual move to cloud computing.

Bart Simpson and classmates, sitting in rows of desks facing the teacher and a blackboard filled with arithmetic problems, all have mobile devices. They are seemingly connected to servers on data farms watching and listening to things far removed from providing answers to the multiplication and division questions on the board.