Topic > Persuasive Essay on Formal Education - 844

The use of paper textbooks and tests in classrooms was necessary in the last century because it prepared students to use the same materials in their future workplaces. However, in today's workplace, technological devices such as the personal computer and iPad have replaced those materials, making them irrelevant. While today's workplaces have reinvented their traditional, archaic way of working, the same cannot be said of today's school system. In our society, the decision to reverse today's education system should be a priority due to the fall of the American education system in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development rankings. A question that today's technologically advanced society must ask is “how can we improve the twentieth century classroom to take advantage of all the remarkable digital advantages of the twentieth century” (Davidson 55). To reinvent our education system, teachers and leaders in our school system must unlearn the traditional way of learning. “Instead of teaching we must learn” (Davidson 50). Teachers need to learn from 21st century, tech-savvy students and incorporate some ideas into their teaching methods. While this experiment breaks the educational institution's learning patterns, it also gives