The emphasis in today’s schools should be “not so much [on] what you know when you graduate, because we need learning to be lifelong,” Tapscott said. “We need to have a generation coming into the workforce that not only has knowledge, but can think, solve problems, communicate, and collaborate.”
Tapscott said educators should not “throw technology into a classroom and hope for good things.” By cutting back on lectures and using technology to engage students in tasks such as real-world problem solving, he said, educators will empower students to collaborate and focus on lifelong learning, not just teaching to a test.
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