CBC News - Consumer Life - The future of education: reboot required

CBC News - Consumer Life - The future of education: reboot required
This article seems appropriate after today's computer class which dealt with the use of social network technologies in the classroom. The article is an interview with Don Tapscott and a discussion on how the education system needs to change to be more student focused, engaging, collaborative, and adapting to the learning style of the multi-tasking net generation.

So far in my studies it has been emphasized repeatedly that teaching is about engaging students, encourage critical thinking, etc, etc, etc. I'm sure this has been taught in pedagogy courses for many years yet we still have teachers who lapse into lecture style of non-interactive teaching. Why is that? Is it because it's easier and takes less effort? How does technology fit into this? I'm a tech savvy person yet I sometimes still feel overwhelmed by technology because it brings in so much more information and I have to spend more time to filter through those extra information!