Digital Kids. Analog Schools.

I have mixed feelings about the quotes.  In some ways, we need to prepare our children for the age of technology, but in other ways, perhaps in their younger years, we need to protect them from the age of technology and allow them to learn through movement, each other and with a pencil in their hand.  There is something beautiful about the art of writing or moving manipulatives by hand that is lost through the more abstract tool a computer and technology.

"We desperately need . . . we may not survive without . . . a generation of young people who are imaginative, inventive, fearless learners, and compassionate leaders. Yet, what can we say, as educators, about the students we are producing? We can prove that they can read, do basic math on paper, and they are able to sit for hours filling in bubble sheets.  

No generation in history has ever been so thoroughly prepared for the industrial age. http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/2006/02/16/happy-birthday-jude/ 

This quote struck me more than the others because from my years of teaching, I found that in my school district we were preparing kids to score well on a test, but there was no room for creativity or thinking outside the box.