
…her new technologies, parents and educators need to think about education and learning in new ways, focusing less on delivering instruction and more on providing children with opportunities to explore, experiment, and express themselves.
Change is urgently needed. Today, most activities in children’s lives — from lessons in the classroom to games in the living room — are not designed to help children develop their creative capacities. Most technologies in children’s lives are designed to deliver instruction or entertainment, not to engage children in creative thinking and creative expression.
… to write, they begin to see themselves differently — and to see their role in society differently. The Brazilian educator-philosopher Paulo Freire led literacy campaigns in poor communities not simply to help people get jobs, but also to help people learn that “they can make and remake themselves” (as he wrote in Pedagogy of Indignation).