The Forces of Restructuring

I feel like this article had two issues, which it addressed very well. The first issue was the importance and how students need to evaluate a website for its source and its validity. The article gave and example of how a seeming simple assignment of gathering information on the holocaust can be warped by the web and by those with opinions that are miss leading and hateful. It explains how the teacher is in some way remissive of the erroneous information. The teacher failed to teach how it distinguishes between a primary source and a secondary source or no valid source at all. It is important to consider as teachers when we give an assignment we clarify the difference.

The article then went into the reasons we as teachers fail to make the clarification of an assignment or just lack of time to teacher the issues the first part of the article addresses. That is we are pinned between what should be taught and what is be dictated to us to teach as a result of high steak testing. It is important for the lawmakers, school board members and the general public to see this dilemma. We are teachers. And as the world evolves and becomes more technical, we are stuck teaching to the archaic ways of the past, namely a standardized test.