21st Century Edu.World

These are the words Ivan and I heard in a classroom at Hinkley High, enthusiastically - and definitely not sarcastically (which can be typical of cynical teenagers), blurted out by a student when we briefly showed her and her peers a piece of new technology that would be used in their classroom soon.  I felt like this simple statement, and how she said it, may have summed up the feeling and the mood spreading across the school, and trickling into the school district - a feeling that with the proliferation of new 21st century learning tools in our classrooms, that there is exciting potential to learn in new and hopefully better ways, and that it’s not just the schools in a wealthy suburb that are utilizing all of the high-tech tools anymore, but that the resources are being made available to all.  Is there a sense of equity? Maybe, maybe not, but the truth is… the kids are observing that we are making a commitment to them to provide them with the means to take their education to the next level, and in turn, they may actually find themselves a little bit more excited to come to school each day and find enjoyment in learning about the world around them because now we have useful tools to bring the world to them!

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