Growing Up Digital

I have been reading (on my Kindle) Don Tapscott’s (2009) Grown Up Digital: How the Next Generation Is Changing Your World. Tapscott urges educators to move from “broadcast learning to interactive learning.” Here’s a quote I liked summarizing his rationale:

“Teachers are not a fountain of knowledge, the internet is.”

What does curriculum and instruction look like in a classroom where most knowledge level questions can be answered with a simple Google search? 

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