Current education reform strategies are inadequate or failing. ACOT2 assumes as its starting point that time-honored yet outmoded approaches to education and education reform must be replaced with new and creative ways of thinking about designing learning environments for this generation of students.

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Educators must become more than information experts; they must also be collaborators in learning—leveraging the power of students, seeking new knowledge alongside students, and modeling positive habits of mind and new ways of thinking and learning.

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In terms of teaching methods, schools must recognize that what engages this generation of learners is very different from what may have engaged previous generations.

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Because of today’s digital technology, students live a media rich, connected, and mobile lifestyle, and they are just as often producers of content as they are consumers.

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…schools must infuse the curriculum with a forward-looking context.

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ACOT2_Background

Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow—Today. Learning in the 21st Century. Apple (2008).