Guest Commentary: Strategy for Realizing the Potential of 'Digital'

EducationEvolving says its mission is to persuade people that "the effort to improve American education should focus on motivating students and teachers, by creating radically different ways for young people to learn and for teachers to work."
It has taken a large step in reaching that goal with the publication of its report "Strategy for Realizing the Potential of Digital."
The report states that in today's world "digital enters school mainly to automate current processes." That's the wrong strategy.
Instead, educators should ask be asking how to "introduce digital technology know it will radically change traditional processes ... Enabling legislation clearing away barriers might be insufficient. It might be better to get the decisions about adopting digital into the hands of the parties who will use it creatively; to its potential."
Who are those parties?
According to the report, "The answer is to re-arrange K-12 so that decisions about the take-up and use of technology are made by the people in the schools."
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