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The world has changed; the expectations in the workforce have changed.

In the six months since its technology infusion, EKA has become a model of what the classrooms of the 21st century might look like.

It’s like second nature for the students,” she said. “They’re open to trying this and they’re used to this multimedia access."

Technology is used to enhance the learning. … A (printed) textbook gives one person’s view (of a subject). When students use multiple sources, they get a global view.

With iPads, they’re engaged and using them in a learning capacity. Students aren’t confined to doing a report or making a poster; they can create movies, songs and presentations.

The world has changed; the expectations in the workforce have changed.... You can’t even work at a McDonald's without using a touch screen.... If we don’t change how we teach, it’s a disservice to our kids.

"It’s like second nature for the students," she said. "They’re open to trying this and they’re used to this multimedia access."

Students use the iPads to access educational websites and applications as well as electronic textbooks. They use the iPad to take notes and the tablet’s camera to photograph whiteboards filled with teacher’s lessons and chemistry formulas. Some even record lectures using the iPad’s digital voice recorder or video camera, referring to them when they review for tests.

Learning = better test scores. And so it goes...

has used its academic flexibility to institute a project-based learning method, where students create projects — presentations, plays, dances and dioramas — to demonstrate their knowledge.

But I also know that if we keep allowing stories like these to set the bar for change, we’re shortchanging our kids. It’s yet another example of conflating teaching and learning, of not fully understanding the shift to self-directed, personal learning that technology and the Web support. Transformation in this sense means shifting the balance of power to the learner. And I know that starts way before we put a piece of technology in a kid’s hands.

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