NCLB & Technology

Industrial Age
Strict
Lacks Creativity
Everybody must learn same way
Technology in classroom not encouraged.
Few resources
Teachers stuck to standards


Industrial age Information/Communication
Freedom to explore
Creativity encouraged usually
People learn in different ways and its okay.
Technology is over flowing into the classroom. Coming faster than we can adjust to.
More resources than ever before (maybe to many to fast)
Teachers are exploring, creating and designing new ways to keep up.

NCBL fits in both categories. It fits in the strict standard based industrial age. The heavy requirements on testing results and having all students learn the same information the same way is very much industrial age. It does not provide for much flexibility in different ways that students may learn, just like industrial age.
NCLB is not designed to meet the needs of today's technology world. It lacks the flexibility of today's educational needs. NCLB is set up for the standards of Industrial age learning.

It does meet the the needs in information/communication by recognizing and investing in our changing immigrant population. NCLB calls for these students to receive equal education and requires schools to teach them English. NCLB does not limit technology and even provides money and initiatives for teachers in some areas.

NCLB is relevant to today's students because it reaches out to all students and requires schools to provide and teach all students equally. NCLB does not do enough to prepare today's students for the 21st century world. It does not require students and teachers learn new technology.