The teacher’s role is to help students learn how to think and apply knowledge. Students do not need a human encyclopedia, nor do they need to become one in order to function in the future. A person who knows how to use a screwdriver is more valuable than someone who merely possesses one.
The goal of learning is for students to learn how to think and process information so that they can solve problems. Most of our education revolves around giving students information for them to memorize and recall later. That is brainless and will not be of much use when it comes to figuring out how we are going to survive as a country and species in the coming years.
The classroom environment has to have a social element. The era of isolation is over. Whether it is our social lives or the way our governments have to interact with each other, we have to figure out how to work well with others. There are very few real world situations that do not require working with others.
Technology will be the force that binds it all together. It will provide the tools necessary for the students to find and apply knowledge, utilize higher level thinking skills, and connect with other people in their own classroom and all over the world.
Technology like you said has the tools necessary for students to interact with there enviroment like never before. Rather than just sit and playing games they can use games and other interations to learn and connect with other people here and around the world. This is something as a society we need to learn about and embrace.
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