The Fog of Education

"September's issue of Popular Science opened with emphasis on changing how we educate today's youth. Additionally, the publisher is partnering with a DIY electronics company to make Arduino boards more fiscally friendly to the nation's educational infrastructure. Other initiatives highlighted in this issue include using games as a teaching tool (SimCity EDU and LEGO EV3 robotics being the primary examples), and a contract between Red Bluff High School and NASA to run geological simulations at Lassen Volcanic National Park (which, for those of you who know me, is only an hour and a half to the west of where I'm from)..."

This is another article that I wrote in my blog, serving as an alternate viewpoint to some opinions expressed in the most recent Popular Science issue. Feel free to read and respond to it here or on the blog itself.