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=Out of the mouths= – quotes from [|Student 2.0] All my life, I always wanted to know //why// I needed math, and when no one answered it to my satisfaction year after year, I gave up wanting one. I gave up //wanting// to know at all. I gave up my sense of curiosity and settled for crunching numbers. This is a story that most students share. Published by [|Samantha] on January 24, 2008. As the realm of intellectual accessibility expands at amazing rates (due to greater global collaboration and access to information), students of tomorrow will need to be their own guides as they explore the body of information that is at their fingertips. My generation will be required to learn information quickly, use that information to solve new and novel problems, and then present those solutions in creative and effective ways. The effective students of tomorrow’s world will be independent learners, strong problem solvers and effective designers. Published by [|Anthony Chivetta] on January 22, 2008 To me, this begs the question: if someone of such a high stature can adapt with the times, and incorporate the technologies found around us in to something that has done its job over the past 50 years then why do these technologies not have a place in our classrooms right now? Why are the schools the only places left that don’t seem to want to adapt? We all know that schools do their job: they work... they train students to pass exams Published by [|Sean "The Bass Player"] on December 26, 2007