Is the human brain still the smartest thing on this planet?

The article "Our Brains Extended" by Marc Prensky talks about how technology has become a foundation to education and life in general. We may not think about it much, but our lives are surrounded by technology. We grow up with technology in our classroom and it has evolved immensely over the years. We all remember watching educational movies on the TV on wheels and learning how to use Word documents, and progressing to smartboards over the years. As we grow technology grows, but have our brains grown with it? Without technology we simply don't know how to function. When kids say, "I'll be lost without my cell phone" they really mean it. We are programmed differently than we were 50 or even 10 years ago. In the classroom today, technology is huge. We cannot go back to the old chalk board and eraser days. Children are growing up with all of these wonderful new technological advances and teachers need to evolve with them. There can be no more living in the dinasour ages. Our curriculum will have to change to keep up with the world and things that haven't even been thought of. Our subject matter needs to stay relevant to the students. Yes, they still need to learn about the past and how this all happened, but they also need to learn new ways of thinking and developing ideas. 

Students should be taught the same basics, such as math, reading, writing, and so forth and so on. They just need to be taught these things with technology being incorporated into it. They need to know how to use spreadsheets and calculators. Calculators think better than we can. Isn't that scary? This is why students and teachers need to learn new ways to do old things. Using technology in the classroom allows them to connect with more than just the people in their classroom and school. It allows them to reach out to the world with the internet. How cool would it be for students to do projects that actually achieve a goal and comes to life? Not just putting it on paper and thinking about it, but actually doing it. That is what makes a difference in education. Allowing the students to see how companies work, how to make blueprints come to life, and learning how to fund organizations for profit and non-profit. Prensky says the new curriculum should be three crucial areas; effective thinking, effective action, and effective relationship. Effective thinking would allow the students to include creative and critical thinking as portions of math, science, logic, persuasion, and even storytelling. Effective action would include entrepreneurship, goal setting, planning, persistance, project management, and feedback. Lastly effective relationship would let the student allow for emotional intelligence, teamwork, ethics, and much more. Our curriculum today needs to focus on these three strategies Prensky has presented us with. We're not throwing our history out the door, but allowing for new history to be written.