Lisa Nielsen is on point with this argument, I think. "We need to be honest," she writes. "students do not need less technology. They need better learning." The argument has two parts. The first part is an illustration of what students can do with technology, offering the example provided by Lou Lahana's makerspace at The Island School in Manhattan. Read more here. The second part offers an alternative explanation for perceived declines in student performance. "I wrote about this directly in: Laptops Did Not Take Away Their Brains. The School Model Did. She adds, "Inequitable access to effective models of learning is the real divide. The gap is not who gets devices. The gap is who gets powerful learning experiences where technology is used to research, create, build, iterate, publish, and act, and who gets drill and test prep, whether on paper or on a screen."
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