"Traditional instruction places far too much emphasis on content. The problem
isn't just that what students need to know can't be known. The unreasonable
amount of information dumped on them, the brief life in memory of most of
it, and easy electronic access to a near-infinite amount of it, make merely
delivering information a poor use of time. Focusing on the real world rather
than on second-hand textbook versions of reality, and understanding the
process by means of which sense is made of that world, are keys to new
worlds of performance."
"The test of life is not whether we can remember what we learn in school, but whether we are prepared for change," says Schleicher. "Whether we are prepared for jobs that haven't been created and to use technology that haven't been invented to solve problems we just can't anticipate today."
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"it is important to recognize that the media are themselves a product of society, and thus are shaped by fundamental processes of social change. The same technologies can be taken up for progressive or more traditional education goals."