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Solving highly complex problems requires that students have both fundamental skills (reading, writing, and math) and Digital Age skills (teamwork, problem solving, research gathering, time management, information synthesizing, utilizing high-tech tools). With this combination of skills students become directors and managers of their learning process, guided and mentored by a skilled teacher.

David Nagel: You've described the cell phone as a "game changer" for education and as the "quintessential 21st century tool." Why the cell phone specifically?

or 90 percent of what a student has to do, the smart phone can do i

Samsung's Galaxy already has a version that can shoot out a 60-inch image!

instructors have blasted Facebook (and rightfully so) for its poor privacy protections.

Google+ allows a person to place all of their contacts into Circles, allowing a user to control with great precision who among their contacts will have access to which bits of shared content.

While we might talk a good game about goals, ethics, and the greater good, Partycipation reminds us that we are what we do.

14th century France inhabited a relatively simple personal world with maybe three sides: farm, village, and the church. Today ordinary individuals construct amazingly complex personal worlds with many facets. The game has truly changed.

"elephant in the room," a big conspicuous but largely undiscussed problem: What should we do with tired content?

If only we could shrink some topics, we could expand others that offer much more.