Chapter 8: Rewired Learning

We should keep redesigning and updating schools. We should not just design once and then sit back and watch. Now, teenagers spend on average six hours a day in front of a media screen. We should incorporate this technology into the classroom. NASA technologies are available in some schools. Microsoft partnered with the School District of Philadelphia and although Microsoft provided human capital, strategic planning tools and organizational best practices, it did not donate anything. The Microsoft school is almost completely paperless. An interactive learning center replaces a traditional library and students carry laptops instead of textbooks. At the Denver School of Science and Technology, all of the students received laptops or tablet computers for free thanks to an HP grant. We need to look to these schools and plan for the unknown because right now we are trying to teach students for a future that we are not sure what they will need to know but bridging the digital divide should help us to teach in the future.