Rethinking Chapter 4

Reading this chapter I get constantly reminded of Professor Brewer's history class where we talk about the industrial revolution and the effect it had on various aspects like schooling.  The chapter highlights how schooling became how we know it today.  The examples show how schooling started out as parents teaching their children the tricks of their trade like farming followed by the shift of schooling to the responsibility of the states.  Ironically, schooling in America as grown just like the technologies that some believe are unrelated to school.  In fact most of the technologies outside of schools needed some sort of instruction that had to be learned in schooling.  Various adaptations to the one room schoolhouse that shows that adaptation in education is possible were graded classrooms, tests, textbooks, standardization, improved structure in high schools.  This reading impacts my learning because it shows that even if computers are barred from school it is a parallel technology that schools need to instruct students to learn much like they did back when agricultural technologies improved and teachers adapted their teaching to prepare students for the upcoming changes in production in various ways.  One thing I will do differently is to try to keep myself prepared in technology changes related and unrelated to the classroom because they can influence what students need to learn once their brick and mortar schooling is finished.