Teachers were working way too hard on some things that modern
technology could make so much easier, says to Dan Levin.
“Precisely, there are a lot of questions available on the
Internet, but they tend to be in the form of PDF files,” he
says. “Teachers need to get the PDFs, skim through them, find
the kinds of questions they are looking for and then, after
doing all that work, they still have to cut and paste and
reformat.” His solution to all that, Problem-Attic, makes the
process a whole lot faster, simpler and more convenient. Here,
Dan discusses what the name means, takes us through the late
1980s when technology integration into the classroom began in
earnest, through an era of large vertical systems—and into the
present time environment of technology in education to fill us
in on what he thinks is really going on with teachers and
technology. Victor: What does the name mean? Dan: The name
Problem-Attic gradually evolved from a lot of experimentation
with words such as test, quiz, problem, question and e