Giving Compass' Take:

· Teachers know that the strategies being used for education are outdated, and technology can help cater to the learning methods different students need. In order to better serve students and allow for improvement in teaching methods, Getting Smart suggests that schools provide educators with the skills they need to update and adapt their classrooms. 

· How is learning with technology different in comparison to education in the past? how can philanthropy work to empower teachers?

· Learn how digital tools can enhance teaching.

When you’re trying to find a restaurant in an unfamiliar city, do you pull out a folded-up map, or do you pull out your smart phone and Google it?

As technology evolves, our expectation for how that technology can and should make our lives better evolves with it. While holding a paper map may bring out a sense of nostalgia, we know inherently that our phones will help us to navigate to an unknown location more quickly and efficiently.

Yet every day, we ask teachers to prepare 50 million U.S. students for college and careers using a one-size-fits-all learning model that is tailored to the past. Under this model, teachers and schools are pressured to teach to compliance rather than competency, and our students leave school ill prepared for their own future.

Much like a paper map, our current educational system is outdated. Luckily, there are forward-thinking teachers and schools who want to use technology to transform their classrooms into collaborative, creative spaces where teachers become guides (an in-person Google, if you will) who help students drive their own learning.

Read the full article about learning in the digital age by Bev Perdue at Getting Smart.