www.IndianJournals.com Members Copy, Not for Commercial Sale Downloaded From IP - 14.139.62.118 on dated 24-Aug-2017 72 Harjeet Kaur Bhatia and Rasna Solanki The new millennium is ushered by dramatic technological revolution. In a society where most of work is now computer- oriented, how can schools resist the change. Technologies like smart classrooms, electronic networks are slowly infiltrating the schools. This technological revolution has transit the society from oral & print to visual culture. India, an agricultural country, beginning with agragarian society, got transformed to industrial society with times and with the rise of ICT, gave birth to information society of which knowledge is the primary source thus building a platform for knowledge society to retain which is the responsibility of education by generating knowledgeable and learned future learners. Even Vision 2020, defines Knowledge Society as a society where caring, sharing and using knowledge are key factors promoting prosperity and well being of the people. The term Knowledge society, Information Society and Learning Society have now become familiar expressions in the educational parlance, words that are pregnant with unimaginable potentialities. Knowledge should not remain the monopoly of few. If knowledge society is to develop properly then information delivery should not just be dispensing of information but information should be structured in such a way that it fulfils some basic conditions of inter-activity, mobility, convertibility, connectivity, ubiquity and globalization, as given by Toffler (1990). At present India has achieved a literacy rate of 64% but still the gross number of illiterates is the largest in the world. India has the third largest scientific and technological manpower of the world but it has also a high drop-out rate, only 2 out of10 students reach the 9th standards (Vision 2020). Our future depends upon how wisely we accept and master information and knowledge technologies. Changes in the society are coming thick and fast. They call for new shape of schools, new learner profile, teacher profile, and administrators profile. Schools should no longer act as just buildings with all facilities but as nerve centers, where the walls are porous and transparent, connecting teachers, learners and the community to the wealth of knowledge that exist in the world. They need to develop a culture of inquiry, where students dont compete with each other for grades, but rather develop cooperative social structure and work towards the problem. Strommen & Lincoln 1992 p. found that Constructivism has led to the additional discovery that powerful gains are made when children work together .....children Harjeet Kaur Bhatia 1 Rasna Solanki 2 CONSTRUCTING TOMORROWS CONSTRUCTIVIST CLASSROOM 1. Associate Professor, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi 2. Research Scholar, JMI, Delhi Gyanodaya: The Journal of Progressive Education Vol 4 No 2 Jul-Dec, 2011