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anonymous on 21 May 13Thomas Carroll wants the reader to truly think about this question and if your answer is no then he wants to know what are you doing about it. It is discussed that today's schools bring the learner to the knowledge and tomorrow's schools should bring the knowledge to the learners. To do this several things have to change such as teachers and schools. If we want schools to be different we have to prepare teachers differently. A Network Learning Community is suggested. Its members would collaborate to achieve common goals, learning together as they develop solutions for problems they are addressing in common. Everyone becomes a learner and the distinction between students and teachers fade away. Within this Network Learning Community there would be expert learners, novice learners and mature learners. An expert learner would help others learn through collaboration to solve problems and achieve goals they have in common. They would organize and manage the learning. Everyone would start out as a novice learner at birth and may remain a novice learner in on field while becoming a mature or even an expert learner in another over time. An ideal setting would be a problem in the middle, several learners surrounding it and an expert learner as well. The learners would be novice up to mature learners and the expert learner would be the person that structures the learning activities, but is also constantly learning more and modeling the learning process, as oppose to the teaching process.