Technology in Education_Chapt 1: The Challenge of Change.

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Today, everyone, if they are to have a job, needs the kind
of higher order thinking skills that only those in
managerial or professional positions formerly needed. We
can only achieve this through major structural reform of
our education system.
— Jane Gilbert,  2005, p. 67
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Material in this chapter fi rst appeared in Ehlers, U - D., and Schneckenberg, D.
(eds.)  (2010)   Changing cultures in higher education: Moving ahead to future learning.
Heidelberg/London/New York: Springer. Reproduced with permission of the
publisher.
 Meet Samantha, a Twenty - First - Century Student
Samantha is 25 years old, with a one - year - old baby, and lives with
her boyfriend, Shaun, who works as a trainer in a fi tness center.
She works part - time at a local day care center. She has an old
Honda Civic, a  “ smart ”  mobile phone, and her own laptop computer with broadband Internet access. She regularly uses Twitter,
Skype, Google Search, Google Mail, Facebook, Flickr, iTunes,
and YouTube, as well as standard PC software such as Word and
Excel.