The first point of change is the development of technology and the painfully slow (to me
at least) adaptation of educational practice to advances in technology. The equipment
has been there, the VCR’s, the digital cameras, and all of that, but the excitement for
and ease of use of these technologies has obscured their deeper potential as
educational tools, and now we are at what to many seems a saturation point. The
common core curriculum initiatives in Math and ELA are a perfect example of how
educators and legislators, both inside and beyond the classroom have bowed to the
belief that computers have the capability to make anything possible, and so have
created a curriculum that is actually impossible for every student to achieve.
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