In Classroom of Future, Stagnant Scores
Public schools should look to basic, creative and cheap ways to develop learning techniques, not spend billions of dollars on test driving them at the cost of loosing art, music and physical education.  The Kyrene School District's attempt to improve students discovery by using educators as guides rather than teachers and computers as the means for uncovering knowledge showed no positive standardized test results.  For those who believe standardized tests accurately measure knowledge, these results may show the new technologies implemented in the classroom to be unsuccessful. I do not believe that test scores are a proper measurement of any human's intelligence, so this data is of little use to me.  However I do think that there are more hands-on and cheaper ways to go about improving the public education atmosphere that would not cut art, music or physical education, which were my three favorite parts of schooling as a child.
The article describes the technologic aids in the classroom basically as promoters of discovery, even though a computer screen is almost as far from reality as a spoon is from a tooth pick.  I acknowledge the benefits of  computers and the internet for research and news purposes.  I do feel agree that schools should steer away from fact-based knowledge and more towards hands-on discovery, where the teacher is a guide rather than lecturer.  This should not take away from the arts or physical education, that is just depressing.  The approach should actually be a more artistic one where knowledge is unearthed by the students.  Scientists did not research their discoveries; they explored, touched and experienced just as artists work with a medium.  Though the use of technology in a classroom may bring the school into the future, the capacity to learn has long existed.  School must channel this curiosity towards nature for science, artifacts for history, classic novels for Language Arts and visible and real equation for math.  This would be a more basic and creative approach.   
In testing whether or not a school based on curiosity and hands-on discovery was successful, standardized testing may not be a proper measurement either.  This is an issue I feel as though I should not waste my time arguing but learning to work with.  Maybe testing should only occur in higher grades so the pressure to teach to the test during the most vulnerable years will no longer exist.  This way teachers will have the time to let the students explore outside, on field trips or watch plays that the teacher performs as a lesson.  We should not be aiming to produce robots of knowledge memorization but scientists of all the fields.