That Was Then, So What Do We Do Now? How Can We Use Technology to Prepare Students for the 21st Century?

The "Big Question" in these times of shrinking educational budgets and increased academic expectations in our classrooms is: What can we do to help prepare our students for a successful future? Current research indicates that this generation of school age children will have a number of jobs by the time they're in their thirties, many of which don't even exist today. Our traditional school system was founded hundreds of years ago when the goal was to enable students to be successful farmers or factory workers. This traditional brick-and-mortar system is often hard to challenge or change. An even better question for us to answer is: Exactly what future are we preparing our students for?