Chapter 5 Tapscott's Education

Teachers today could get a lot of use out of Tapscott's ideas of teaching. One thing he says is a major help is for teachers to not lecture students but to interact with them. This is important because it uses one of the norms, collaboration. This is a good trait for teaching because it helps the students learn knowing the teacher is working it with them and are there when they need them. A second concept that goes with collaboration is having student working together as well. Having other students working together helps because they get to have people to learn with. They can see different sides of things and how other students are comprehending things which might allow them to get a broader and better understanding of what they are learning. It is hard to work by yourself because you are only going by what you got out of the lecture. Anything you missed will be lost forever for you. Especially if the teacher doesn't have a collaboration teaching method. Another concept is not having the same education for each student. It is better to have customization especially in learning because people learn differently from student to student. Customization is also another norm in the six norms. The importance of personalizing a students education could be the difference from someone graduating and dropping out. Tapscott has many insights on education but I see these as the two most important for today's education.