Best-Selling Author Don Tapscott Discusses Impact of Technology on Today's Young...

Best-Selling Author Don Tapscott Discusses Impact of Technology on Today's
Young Learners

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NEW YORK, July 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Don Tapscott, a leading authority
on business strategy and author of Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is
Changing Your World, discusses how the Internet has changed K-12 education on
the latest edition of DistrictLeadersPodcast.com. This is the only national
podcast Web site created expressly for district leaders and other educational
leaders.

In this interview with Arthur Griffin, Jr., senior vice president of
McGraw-Hill Education's Urban Advisory Resource, Tapscott discusses the world
of digital natives and how the explosion of the Internet into mainstream
society has necessarily and completely changed education.

"Growing up interacting with this technology actually changes the way these
students are, the way they think, and the way they process information,"
Tapscott said. "The old model of learning based on lecturing is so encoded in
our culture. Teaching needs to be about creating a context where students can
discover. We need people who can think, solve problems, and communicate in the
knowledge economy. Technology has transformed their lives in a positive way to
facilitate the new style of learning."

An expert on how information technology changes business, government and
society and education, Tapscott is chairman of nGenera Insight. He served as
founder and chairman of the international think tank New Paradigm before its
acquisition by nGenera. He is an internationally sought writer, consultant and
speaker for many of the world's largest corporations and government leaders
from many countries. The Washington Technology Report called him one of the
most influential media authorities since Marshall McLuhan. He also is Adjunct
Professor of Management, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of
Toronto.

Tapscott has authored 13 widely read books about information technology in
business and society. His most recent book, GROWN UP DIGITAL: How the Net
Generation is Changing Your World,(McGraw-Hill Professional), is the sequel to
his 1997 book GROWING UP DIGITAL, where he defined the Net Generation. In
2007, he co-authored, with Anthony Williams, WIKINOMICS: How Mass
Collaboration Changes Everything (Portfolio).

His earlier books include THE DIGITAL ECONOMY: Promise and Peril in the Age of
Networked Intelligence (McGraw-Hill Professional, 1996), one of the
best-selling books about technology in business ever. The book appeared on a
number of bestseller lists including the New York Times business book list. It
had a run of seven months on the Business Week bestsellers' list.

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SOURCE McGraw-Hill Education

Tom Stanton, McGraw-Hill Education, +1-212-904-3214,
tom_stanton@mcgraw-hill.com; or Melina Metzger, Paul Werth Associates,
+1-614-224-8114 Ext. 236, mmetzger@paulwerth.com