Macrowikinomics is now available in paperback! 
In the forthcoming Macrowikinomics , Don Tapscott and I will be arguing that we’ve gone beyond wikinomics to a more encompassing societal shift as businesses and communities bypass crumbling institutions and old ways of doing business.
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Rebooting the University
I agree that the outdated pedagogical methods are holding back the digital natives in Canadian classroom, and as evidenced in the recent film Waiting for Superman the United States as well. One of the most absurd images from that documentary was an animation of teacher pouring knowledge into her students’ head. It is very indicative of the “old school” pedagogy in North America which sees students as blank slates or empty containers, while the newer, more collaborative classroom model as seen in Portugal and a select few classroom around the country, such as New Brunswick, the student actively take part in their learning. Your article is right in pointing out that it “is not about technology per se” but more to do with teachers and others in the field of education catching on to what interests and engages their students most.
I haven’t seen any real changes to pedagogy in New Brunswick. It’s still very much teacher and content centric. Beware of lipstick on a pig.
Children (or indeed any learners) are not ‘empty rubbish bins’ waiting to be filled up with knowledge. Knowledge must be created freshly by the learner themselves so it can be integrated with existing knowledge (personality and character). The internet now gives us (humanity) an instant and unending source of the thirst for knowledge that is the hallmark of our species.
What Mr .Tapscott has seen in Portugal is an ilusion. Computers and broadband access to the internet are a reality but they are not being used in schools as it was mise-en-scene. The great majority of the teachers had no trainning to use ICT in the class, kids use laptops manily for gaming, facebook and hi5, so there is no educational results concerning curriculum and core competences. I am Portuguese and I have been in houndred of schools, not only the ones that the government usually shows to foreigners.