Education Needs a Digital Update

Dear Readers, 
     I've recently read an article that intrigued me quite a bit. It raised the question of whether we, as educators are doing justice by our students teaching them in the manners which students were taught in the past, while they are growing up in this technologically advanced society. It makes teachers wonder if perhaps by not making our students more savvy with technology, we are doing them an in justice by preventing them from future careers they may have which we have not even seen yet, but may develop in this technological age, along side a few more technological advancements.
     The speaker also raised the question: Since we've changed the way in which we instruct our classrooms in the past as the times changed then and the society advanced, why are we not better aiding our pupils for their future in this new world? I believe the speaker is right in this regard, we need to better prepare our pupils for the future. After all, if we don't prepare them for this future and their forced interaction with their technologically advanced society, have wee really done our jobs as educators? As educators, we're supposed to prepare our pupils for their future, even if that involves more technology being integrated into the classrooms than we're used to, or even simply having our students learn how to better use the technology around them. Just as the speaker cited in her article with changing times in the past, the classroom changed for the industrial age; so must we do now n this technologically advanced society. The image below shows us an idea of how our relationship with technology in the class room should change. We need to have our students collaborating and learning how to better use technology. Lastly, by collaborating and working in groups, students are able to learn, I believe quite effectively, the technology around them by having exposure to multiple learning approaches from different minds both: yours and their peers.