Google Global Education Evangelist Jaime Casap pulled out his 3-day-old smartphone and held it up in front of a crowd of educators, business leaders and students gathered at Walsh University. That phone, equipped with the most cutting-edge technology available, will be the worst technology that a 5-year-old child ever sees, he said Wednesday. “That’s the generation that’s starting in our schools this year,” he said.
Casap, 46, served as the keynote speaker at the third annual Intelligent Community Forum Global Symposium. He urged educators to start rethinking how kids are taught and even how classrooms are designed for the new “techweb” generation. Casap, who grew up in the Hell’s Kitchen area of New York City, noted that schools are teaching students for jobs that don’t exist yet in the new knowledge economy. Link