Grown Up Digital by Tapscott Part 2

Part two began to introduce the problem of both high school and college dropouts and that the reason might be because of the old fashioned ways of teaching in the new digital world. Tapscott says "Instead of focusing on the teacher, the education system should focus on the student." I think he is making very good points about an issue that I rarely hear/read about which is that teachers also need to interact and work with students instead of just lecturing them.
We need to be learning about more modern day technologies in school, and school systems need to do a better job of keeping up with today's new technologies and business strategies/tools. Instead of teaching us things that will never be useful by the time we graduate college and start searching for a career. As Tapscott says "We are now faced with the fast-paced world of the information age, where, as jobs change, you can't take the time to send workers back to school for retraining. We have entered the era of lifelong learning." I definitely agree with what this author is saying and I think college students today have a lot higher expectations than college students did in the 80s and 90s because of the fast-paced world we live in now that is hard to keep up with. The ability to learn new things is the most important it has ever been so that students can be ready for their careers they will pursue in the future. "Students need to expand their knowledge beyond the doors of their local community to become responsible and contributing global citizens in the increasingly complex world economy."