Let’s start the story 120 years ago, when American factories began to electrify their operations, igniting the Second Industrial Revolution. The amazing thing is that productivity did not increase in those factories for 30 years. Thirty years. That’s long enough for a generation of managers to retire. You see, the first wave of managers simply replaced their steam engines with electric motors, but they didn’t redesign the factories to take advantage of electricity’s flexibility. It fell to the next generation to invent new work processes, and then productivity soared, often doubling or even tripling in those factories.
— <p><a href=“http://www.ted.com/talks/erik_brynjolfsson_the_key_to_growth_race_em_with_em_the_machines.html" title=“TED.com”>Erik Brynjolfsson</a>.</p>
<p>There’s a lot in there to unpack, in terms of how it translates to Education — especially in and around schools that have provided a personal, mobile computing device to each student.</p>