| What does education look like today? Does it | | | | knowledge itself does not change except to grow |
| match what is expected in the real world? | | | | and improve in its breadth as more discoveries |
| "We are so trapped in the memory of what | | | | are made. |
| school was like for us. When we were students, | | | | Homeschool families tend to adapt their education |
| the world outside of school looked like the world | | | | to model a real world example, and I applaud the |
| inside of school. Now, it does not. The paper | | | | many homeschool families that are embracing |
| based system does not make any sense to kids | | | | technology as a day to day integral part of their |
| who are coming up in school. Is our educational | | | | homeschool. With the path that our society and |
| system geared toward innovation? Do we want | | | | culture is taking, this new method of education |
| an 18th century model or a 21st century model | | | | models the real world. Online curriculum, tools, and |
| for our schools?" - Susan Patrick U.S. Dept of Ed. | | | | resources that educate through technology are |
| Though I would not agree with many things that | | | | the 21st century model of education, and one I |
| Ms. Patrick would say, I do agree that we need to | | | | believe most families are ready and willing to |
| give our children an education that is geared | | | | embrace. To accomplish this, adapting our |
| toward real life. It is true for many of our public | | | | methods of education to model the real world |
| schools are modeled after what education looked | | | | must become a necessary part of daily education. |
| like when we were young. Yet, educational | | | | This can be done by adding technology to the |
| methodology should be changing to represent the | | | | training we give our children. There are many |
| changes in our culture, but so often we are late | | | | wonderful sites available on the internet today to |
| to incorporate this change in our government | | | | make this a reality. From public education to |
| schools. Understandably, the vastness of the | | | | private to homeschooling - education must be |
| infrastructure prevents constant change, but this | | | | geared to model, train, and prepare students to |
| is the problem. The change belongs to the | | | | function well in the future. |
| medium in which the education is given - the | | | | |