Brain Based Learning

Chuck Dietrich, CEO of SlideRocket, wrote this article on the effectiveness of digital classrooms, where he argues that perhaps the current debate is not framed correctly. I think he makes some excellent points, most importantly about deciding what we really should be evaluating. I’ve read a number of articles lately about school districts that have spent a lot to buy technology for their schools, yet their test scores are not going up at all. The conclusion of these article tends to be that therefore technology does not necessarily improve learning; …