Edtech By Marketscale

For most of us reading this, it's been a minute since we've attended middle school. Naturally, you’d imagine the textbooks currently in use have been updated over the years. This is not always the case. In today’s episode of the EdTech podcast, Jim Christensen, executive director of the ShareSpace Foundation, explained what's changed and what hasn’t inside America’s elementary schools. One of Christensen's indelible memories during his tenure as a middle school teacher was teaching language arts with the same textbook he used as a child. The experience helped him realize that he would succeed as an educator by teaching children to think, not to test. And young students can mature their thinking skills through collaboration. “Kids want to do things together, they want to work together," he said. While some of the educational materials may still be the same, Christensen reminded listeners that many of today’s students now have computers and even robots in the classroom. He described a hopeful future of integrat