Broken Resolution Already

I know. It's Tuesday, and my blog is late again. 
I'm reading a book called "Curriculum 21 Essential Education for a Changing World" by Heidi Hayes Jacobs and a number of other authors.  With our Iowa Core Curriculum and the 21st Century Skill that we need to be teaching our students I thought it might be a good read. 
In one section written by Stephen Wilmarth, it talks about the confidence we as teachers have placed on the order and scope of the learning process in the past.  That we as educators were seeking the "Walled garden of learning in which we teach and guide and instruct."  That what we thought we knew about teaching and learning was "cathedral-like, elegant, top-down " and may not be a relevant model for todays students.  He suggests that we may have to develop into a world-class system at a far more rapid pace. That the "cathedral, carefully crafted by wizards and experts working in quiet isolation", may need to be changed to a "babbling bazaar that presents a coherent and stable system that meets the challenges of a transformational time in our understanding of learning and teaching."
In other words, our students my need to drag us into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming all the way.   For our students to keep up with the rest of the world, and not be left behind in the agrarian life style of their parents and grandparents, we need to change the way and things we teach.