Are We Really ready For What Is Coming?

In the blog “Rigor Defined” by Tony Wagner, he explains that he thinks that kids aren’t well suited enough in what they should know in technology today. He explains that we need to engage in our thinking for ourselves, not in just a group where we can’t think alone, we think as a group. I work in groups and alone and in my opinion I work better in groups rather then alone because I can’t think out loud by myself, I have to think to myself rather then think out loud to my classmates. I also think we are more then well suited for what we should know now and what he thinks we should know now. We engage in discussions and know how to work our laptops, well most of us. This made me wonder, what the expectations now are really these days. Are honors and ap kids the norm? Or are they just more “prepared” then someone say in normal classes rather then an average student? I believe kids are aloof to what they really should or what we are or need to prepare for in education. I think the standard is an honors student. It seems like we get older there are a more and more smarter kids in my school, and the younger kids are taking harder classes because they are getting smarter then an average kid their age. The point is. Technology is getting harder and kids have more expected of them as the years go by. Are we really ready for it or is Mr. Wagner right, are we really ready for what is coming?