Digital Delights - Digital Tribes

Great critique. We aren't preparing our students for the 21st century. the enter the 1980s workplace when they walk through the doors of a modern school. "Ironically, we teach our children to get the gist of material (rather than truly gaining a comprehensive understanding of content) and measure their recall skills in the form of State Standardized Tests. 21st Century Education is about helping people develop the ability to gain a comprehensive understanding of things and then apply these understandings to other contexts"....isn't this a restatement of the idea that standardized testing fosters crystaliized intelligence, whereas 21st century learning needs to be about fostering fluid reasoning?