"Education Needs a Digital-Age Upgrade" By Virginia Heffernan, August 7, 2011

Virginia Heffernan, again in this article, remains very opinionated over the matter of how today's education system needs to be dramatically updated to meet the standards of today's technological advancements. She claims that schools need to keep up with technology. The reason for this broad statement she says, is because years from now, kids that are in grade-school now, will most likely not be doing the kinds of jobs that exist today. Technology is rapidly advancing, meaning that most of these kids will be practicing jobs that are unheard of nowadays. I agree with her when she says, "We can't keep preparing kids for a world that doesn't exist. We can't keep ignoring the formidable cognitive skills they're developing on their own." I like her style of writing and the way that she critiques. I appreciate how she makes broad statements about society, yet is clearly able to back them up with facts and evidence. I also enjoy reading her opinions because they lead me to realize a lot about our society that I didn't realize before.