For anyone interested in education, my dad just gave me an amazing book that looks at the need for a changing landscape of schools. While I am only one chapter in, I felt compelled to post this quote because it is hugely in support of moving toward computer-based, technology driven learning in order to better reach different learning styles.
From Clayton M. Christensen's Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns
"Today's system [of education] was designed at a time when standardization was seen as a virtue. Much of the support behind...categorizing students by age into grades and then teaching batches of them with batches of material was inspired by the efficient factory system that had emerged in industrial America.. If the goal is to educate every student...we must find a way to move toward...a "student centric" model...Computer-based learning offers a way...Student-centric learning opens the door for students to learn in ways that match their intelligence types in the places and at the paces they prefer by combining content in customized sequences... As modularity and customization reach a tipping point, there will be another change: teachers can serve as professional learning coaches and content architects to help individual students progress- and they can be a guide on the side, not a sage on the stage."
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