Adopting roles as knowledge facilitators and mentors Using technology as a tool Fostering global thinking Creating a Thinking Curriculum Within our technologically changing global society, business educators must consider how people learn. Active learning is encouraged, while life long learning is essential. Business educators must take the lead by ensuring that the curriculum reflects current and future needs of students. The business education curriculum should be viewed as fundamental to the total school curriculum. Emphasis should be placed on global learning, research skills, ethics, cultural perspectives, diversity, collaborative learning environments, and electronic communities of learning.
Educators can link business and academic courses by pairing courses and integrating course content.
Such laboratories allow students to conduct experiments and make observations that have physical limitations. They will be responsible for teaching students to be self-taught in preparation for a lifetime of learning. Using Technology as a Tool Emerging technologies will impact how and where business takes place. Some of those technologies include conversion of data to digital format, data compression, computers as multifunctioning telecommunication appliances, use of silicon brains, fuzzy logic, expert systems, neural networks, data mining, object programming, digital documents, authenticated digital signatures, groupware, interactive documents, smart cards, and more. Emphasis will be placed on learning via computers.