So many articles about ‘new technology’, the internet and how it will be used in the future insist on changing and developing the good old three R’s (reading writing and arithmetic). Sara Armstrong and David Warlick article is no different. They explain that with new technology reading will become “Exposing Knowledge”, arithmetic will be “Employing Information”, writing will become “Expressing ideas compellingly” and they add a fourth “E” “Ethics: right and wrong on information highway.”

I totally disagree with these ideas. Although technology is playing an increasing role in our society, I believe that the three R’s cannot be replaced. Technology is only adding to the things that must be learnt by students today.

Not only do students have to learn how to read, they have to learn to discriminate what they read at a much greater level than ever before.

Not only do students have to learn to write, but now there are even more ways of communicating ideas, will i podcast? this or film it? or write it on my blog?

Students will need to learn a lot to do with new technologies but it is in addition to what they already learn in aim of being literate in society, not in place of it.