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This chapter concentrates on the two main concerns for focus. What to teach students as life-expectancy increases? How to teach new-style learners with information becoming obsolete at unprecedented frequency?
 * Chapter 12 Summary**

//__Creativity__// Increasingly important in an ever more technological world, creativity needs to be incorporated into the core of teaching style. Group work allows an ever more isolated student body to bounce ideas off each other. Options in completing a given task seem to be key in retention and fulfillment of said task.

//__Synthesis__// Students seem to retain better by piecing information together - taking in new information and connecting it to what they already know. Connecting to this prior knowledge results in a new creation of greater comprehension__//.//__ //__Empathy__// In a society with ever more importance being placed on "me", students need to connect on an emotional level with peers and authority. Human beings still nee to feel understood.

Siting the example of KIPP schools, the author feels that a major stumbling block to lifetime learners is sporadic learning. Students that continue to "learn" during vacations and breaks due consistently better throughout their life. Educational on line sites are also sited as a very advantageous resource for all, providing learning, reviewing, and studying at an individual's own pace. The author does point out that the trend wll continue toward this type of learning, and social interaction should always be sought.