California Conference Explores Best Classroom Technology Concepts

The Miami Herald (10/4, Pacenti) reports that the technology currently exists to allow teachers to customize lesson plans to students' individual abilities and to spend "less time grading papers and more time interacting one-on-one with students who are struggling-or who need to move ahead faster." Moreover, "real-time data on student progress makes a once-a-year standardized test obsolete. ... In an age when we use technology to customize every other form of information delivery-from Netflix to news feeds-experts around the country believe we're at a tipping point that could transform education. The Silicon Valley-based Innosight Institute and the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media hosted a conference last month at Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., to showcase to the media some promising innovations for using technology in the classroom."