SMART Education: Opinion - The Ultimate Goal of Smart Learning

One of my favorite TV channels is Kings of Restoration on History HD Channel. The reason why I love this channel is I can get a glimpse of the culture how much americans love their old memorabilia. I can see how much they cherish their old memories still existing in the small and tiny trivial things. Even though there are many glittering newest motorcycles, they bring out rusted and dirty ones out of the garage to get restored as it was into fashion. I have seen many things restored not only big things but small and worthless things such as an old taxi meter which his father left.
This trend is so surprising to me because they honor their traces in the past and want to keep their memories in the old time living in one of the most developed countries. Compared to the states, South Korea, where the government pushes people to follow and adapt what is the newest but less emphasizes on what is old-time. Should we abolish and ignore old-fashioned ones to develop and move forward?

Dog with iPad - 6 grader's drawing

Dog with iPad- 6 grader's drawing

Smart Education is in season nowadays. In Korea, most of educational drives are connected to Smart Education. Somehow, in a skeptical stance, it seems a little bit frantic and blind to follow the trend. For example, we don't think it is not Smartish when we just draw things on a canvas. But it is thought to be Smartish when someone draws things using smart gadgets and share with others on the internet. If you have tried to have students draw using smart gadgets, you would probably have felt that the quality of drawing must have been gone off because it is not fully optimized in drawing compared to drawing with hands.
However, when you ask the same students to draw using analog tools such as pencils, brushes, etc, soon you will be astonished by how you ignore their creativity and diversity and didn't understand their potentials which were not revealed in a smart world.