Yesterday, we wrote about using technology to support tailored instruction. Technology isn’t just providing an opportunity for us to find new methods of delivering information; it is also fundamentally changing the content of our courses. Over the weekend, NPR ran a story about the changing ways that elementary-level math is taught. As computers have become omnipresent in our lives, it has become less important for us to be able to actually do the math. Rather than being able to complete arithmetic problems, students now-a-days need to be able to understand the thinking behind arithmetic.The same could be said about higher levels of math. It is more important for students to be comfortable constructing a formula than it is to plug numbers into a formula and solve it. Since technology has altered the way we use knowledge, it makes sense for it to alter the way we learn it, too.
Alyson Zandt is a Program Associate at MDC.
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