By Dan Lips, Baltimore Sun
While technological innovations are improving and transforming most areas of modern life, our schools are like relics from a bygone era. At home, youngsters are exposed to technology and information that would have been unimaginable to earlier generations. A child can now go online and access unprecedented amounts of information. The answer to most questions is as near as the click of a mouse. In school, most children are being taught in the same manner their parents and grandparents learned. Despite a few computers in the back of the classroom, instruction happens the old-fashioned way. About 15 to 20 students sit in rows of desks, listening to their teacher and trying to absorb the lesson. Their learning occurs mostly during school hours and depends on the talent of the teachers who stand before them.
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