Students Outpacing Teachers With Online Skills

beaverfever writes: "The Christian Science Monitor ran this commentary by Tom Regan on how students in middle and high school are outpacing their teachers when it comes to understanding the potential of and using the internet for learning and doing research. The article addresses a study, The Digital Disconnect, recently released by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. Regarding the study, Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, is quoted: 'Educators have a choice: Either they need to adapt or they will be dragged into a new learning environment.' Both the study and article are about two weeks old, but an interesting read nonetheless."

Comments

News?

[nelsonal]

I bet most /.ers can recall a time when they corrected a teacher. I think students can be as important as educators to the education process. Incidentally, most good MBA programs require that you get some real world experience so this student led education is more valuable.

Well gee,

[Xeriar]

I'm sure -no one- on Slashdot would EVER have seen this one coming...

From more than ten years away, anyway. Heck even before then I could use BBSes for research purposes.

This is news?

[gatekeep]

I remember getting into arguments with my teachers and principals years ago because I did some research on the internet and there was no standard way of annotating it in the bibliography/footnotes yet. This was back around 1992.. evidentally there's now standards for that, but it's just one examples years ago.