21st Century Learning - A redundant title

I am still attending conferences where the speakers talk about 21st Century Learning as if it is yet to happen. The reality is that we are eleven years into the 21st Century and whilst many of us would agree it has yet to happen, what we have is 21st Century. The challenge for forward thinkers is how to arrest this notion in government of a regressive system of education that drags us back to a 20th, if not 19th, century view. A system based upon agricultural and industrial models long since passed. Here in lies the schism between education leadership and management. The problem is that many in the teaching profession are in exactly the same place as parents, they are not willing or perhaps able to recognise, the changing young people in an expodentially expanding world. The teaching profession is a conservative one resistent to change, ironic I know, but a reality none the less. We are in an industrial and social revolution on a par with any in the past. We do not seem to be able to future think. A year seven student starting in my school this coming September will retire from the British workforce, if they are lucky, in 2070. What will this world hold for them?