Capitol expo spotlights need for education technology
By Darrell Smith/Sacramento Bee
A group of educators took turns using a digital whiteboard, while a few feet away, Jared Gallegos, a senior at Sacramento's New Technology High School, prepared for an upcoming mock trial, reviewing questions sent to his smart phone as he sat in a tent on the Capitol's north lawn. It's the changing face of the classroom – interactive, mobile, digital – but it can't arrive soon enough for members of the state's business community who complain that California students aren't prepared to compete in a 21st-century digital workplace. That was the backdrop for what Assemblyman Tom Torlakson, D-Antioch, billed Wednesday as an education technology exposition at the Capitol. (more...)