The article, Knowledge, the Disciplines, and Learning in the Digital Age" by Jane Gilbert looks at why Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) implemented to improve schools has had little effect on revolutionizing teaching and learning for the Knowledge Age. The one big idea from the article is that schools are still teaching knowledge for product, that is teaching practices have change very little and the learning is similar to busy work. The focus in schools has not shifted much from regurgitating information to develop a product toward learning by showing the process. Each grade level has content areas with their learning outcomes. Although the content areas are separate and generally taught separately, when looking at the learning outcomes, there are many overlapping objectives and connections to be made. The general belief that the purpose of education is to develop students that are critical thinkers who are able to generate new knowledge by making connections between subject areas and applying knowledge to new situations ties with the push toward project based learning. Taking knowledge and applying it to show your understanding applies across the grade levels. The use of technology is only one way to develop knowledge through "performativity". Students will not be adding or rehashing old knowledge but using it in a new way to show learning with many innovative digital tools. As well, technology will help as another tool to support teachers as well as allow students, in all content areas, to show their learning and successes in variety of ways. I have been doing some reading on PBL. There are a lot of sites on the topic. I hope to implement it into my classroom this year.