The issue of technology and education has been a popular one for some time now, and it’s begun to raise the question, has the traditional classroom become a thing of the past? If we track the traditional classroom’s history, we’ll find that it had a lot to do with uniformity: 300 years ago, the British Empire thought it’d be handy to train all British subjects the same way so they all wrote in the same script, could read, and did math in their heads. All this was a great idea at the time and we owe much of our subsequent advancement to standardized schooling but times have changed, haven’t they? Continue reading →