Schools were originally set up to handle a society in which it was imbedded in a society of farms and factories (Reinventing Schools). Today only about twenty percent of employed population now works in these areas (RS). Schools not only have to deal with career changes in our population, they also have to deal with the mixture of ethnicities and cultures of students. Teachers in schools today are faced with the challenge of teaching students that come from different backgrounds and ethnic groups. Teachers are also faced with the challenge of making learning meaningful to each student.
             Since society has changed dramatically since the origins of schools were set up, this means that the curriculum, today, has to be changed as well to meet the needs of all children. In our current society, children need to develop skills required to work with information, whether it is to analyze, generate new, store, or retrieve (RS). Teachers realize and believe that student's needs need to change, but are caught up in a system where every minute of our day is set up and accounted for leaving little or no time for anything else.
             We as educators need to better understand and analyze different learning designs such as Knowledge, Problem-Solving, Literacy, Using-Information, and Community. The need to see where technology can impede these models of learning desired is necessary to allow the integration into the classroom. The typical approach to disseminating knowledge in the past and present, which sorry to say, to deliver content through lecture followed by some practice activities and then culminating into a standardized test is not very effective for all students. Quality of teaching and mastery of content is determined on the test score achieved not how well a student can retain and apply knowledge. Each student is unique and therefore learns differently. Our jobs as teachers, is to ensure that we are reaching each student in our cla...