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July 24, 2012 12:59 pm

"Students are connected to the Internet everywhere except in school. Regardless of their income bracket, most kids carry around a world of information in their pockets on their mobile devices, and yet we force them to power down and disconnect, and we confine them in obsolete computer labs. A modern school needs to have connectivity everywhere and treat computers more like pencils than microscopes."

— 10 Things in School That Should Be Obsolete | MindShift (via infoneer-pulse)

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