 Have we got a problem? Yes we do. Even though British Columbia has a good system, we need to make it better to help students meet the challenges they will face as adults. Valerie Cannon explains why countries across the world are so concerned about education. We in the Innovation Unit have started to look at a series of changes, pressures on organised learning that we call the perfect storm. And there are five big pressures bearing down across the world on how organised learning works. So our mindsets need to shift. We need to get real quite frankly and recognise that for many young people the experience of schooling is one which is pretty disconnected to their own experience of real life. Our kids are moving so quickly that the five-year-olds that come into my kindergarten classroom, they are proficient with all forms of technology and my staff, including myself, are running to catch up to them. I think the role of the teacher is to teach students how to think but not necessarily what to think. There should be a way to, if somebody does want to learn more about a specific topic, there should be a channel in which they can go through to learn about that. If there are some things that I could take online, I probably would because that means I could take more classes or courses in school. So increasingly I think what you're looking at is young people who themselves feel some power over their own learning and that they can seek and look for ways in which they can develop themselves. But that's the kind of expectation, aspiration we have of a system that is meeting the needs of young people.