21st Century Learning and Teaching

A key issue I believe is why [has] technology, to date, had very little impact on improved learning outcomes? This could be because we continue to use technology to reinforce 19th century teaching practice to meet out-dated assessment models. Most of the world’s curriculum and assessment systems are based around fact recall rather than actually demonstrating that you have learned something and can deploy it within a problem solving situation. 

Given that in a connected society information is now at the fingertips of children, via smart phones for example, then perhaps it's fair to say that our education systems are anachronistic. We throw technology at classrooms and educational establishments but the institutions themselves and the way we teach have hardly changed, we just get 19th century results more quickly and cheaply. But is this what we want?

I said this since ages and no one believed me...