Education 2.0 & 3.0

"Before the digital age, teachers often had limited choices when responding to an eager-to-learn student with a question to which they did not know the answer.  A teacher could say:

“I don’t know,” and then try to move on.
“I don’t know, but I will look it up after school today and get back to you tomorrow.”
“Why don’t you look it after school today and get back to all of us tomorrow.”

With the digital age, things have changed for the better. Now teachers can also say “Great question, grab a Chromebook, look it up and tell me what you learn.”

But what if the answer to a student’s question can’t be found online. It does happen. The Internet, sadly, does not contain the answers to all of life’s questions. Given this reality, what’s a teacher to do? Leave the eager-to-learn student feeling in the dark, shut-down, not-knowing?

Not necessarily. A teacher’s cell phone can often come to the rescue."