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Monday, August 15, 2011

Math and Science: Out of the Classroom, Into the World (Tina Barseghian) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

Math and Science: Out of the Classroom, Into the World (Tina Barseghian) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

Math and Science: Out of the Classroom, Into the World (Tina Barseghian)

In writing about a new science Framework in the previous two posts, I came across Tina Barseghian‘s enthusiastic blog about how “technology has redefined teaching” science and math in linking school academics to the real world. Teaching and learning school science with digital software is changing before our eyes. Yet anyone in school work over the age of 35 has heard before such glowing accounts with earlier innovative technologies. So a question hangs in the air: how come those classroom reforms of yesteryear that included the latest technologies seldom survived and subsequent generations of reformers had to innovate again and again?

Witnessing how technology has redefined learning makes me wish I could start school all over again. Covering