What am I doing?

One of the most intersting things I have seen that looks at the need to move from the industrial model of education into a 21st Century pedagogical approach, which incorporates the use of inquiry based learning, is this video by Sir Ken Robinson - Changing Education Paradigms. This video points out the necessity to educate children so that they can become effective life-long learners for the 21st century and beyond. In order to do this , we can no longer simply fill their heads with information we deem important, but empower them to seek answers and solutions to learnings that are relavent to their own lives and their place in modern society. This does not mean to say we drop everything and allow students to disregard the learnings of the past. We need to find a way to make existing knowledge relavent to our students and inspire them to use the prior learning to seek new answers and indeed, new questions.
I realise as I write this, that I am demonstrating Kuhlthau's third stage of the inquiry process - exploration. At this stage, I don't know if what I'm researching is germane to this task, but I will continue to persevere.