How Google Took Over the Classroom by Natasha Singer

How Google Took Over the Classroom by Natasha Singer

The director of Google’s education apps group, Jonathan Rochelle, touched on that idea in a speech at an industry conference last year. Referring to his own children, he said: “I cannot answer for them what they are going to do with the quadratic equation. I don’t know why they are learning it.” He added, “And I don’t know why they can’t ask Google for the answer if the answer is right there.”

This is a long article about Google's push to dominate in education. But the most interesting part to me was the unspoken assumption that technology in the classroom is only positive. The only concern was privacy issues. As the quote above shows, the affect it has on actual learning is not a consideration. "Googling" something rewards those who know what questions to ask. For the uninformed, it can be a time-sucking morass.