Despite the lack of a concrete solution, Dede stressed the need to integrate these new modes of learning into educational objectives. "What we really want kids to graduate with," he said, "is knowledge about knowledge; meta-knowledge." Education, he insisted, should foster meaning making; it should emphasize the ability to convey ones own understanding to others.
Paraphrasing Shakespeare's The Tempest, Dede closed by stating "we are witnessing a sea-change." "We can stand to the side," he said, "... or we can get into the middle of it ... and help reinvent education based on new forms of knowledge and learning."
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