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The first time I saw a floppy disk in action I was flabbergasted. You could save pictures of kittens on it, and then go to a different computer, insert it in, and it would display the same picture of kittens that you saved! Let that sink in a little. I was around five and flabbergasted was not part of my vocabulary yet, but that’s exactly how I felt.

Then the CDs have taken over the data storage market, along with the DVDs, and then memory sticks with increasing storage capacity. But as I grew older, the wow factor dimmed. Now all the pictures of kittens I own — as well as a lifetime of other documents — are conveniently stored in the cloud, just a few taps away. I admit I sometimes take the cloud for granted.

While most of the world has been and is being transformed by technological advances — more numerous and more diverse than data storage — there’s at least one part of our modern society that seems to be lagging behind: the educational system. Almost all schools induce the feeling of centuries past.

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