The Paradigm Shift from Information Society to Knowledge Society and its Implications on Teaching

For developing countries to join race of development, they need to develop their ‘digital infrastructure’ and move on to the ‘information superhighway’. This can allow the traditional societies in developing countries to become knowledge societies. The Society had already undergone a paradigm shift from information to knowledge society. In the knowledge society, competence is the most important factor in competition on the global market. That means learning and learning methods now attract great attention in all branches of the industry, in addition to the learning institutions. The knowledge society has brought new expectations, ideas and demands to both teachers and students in a school system. This article is a conceptual review on impact of knowledge society on the teacher education wherein there are new initiatives taken to understand the understanding of the students and educating the educators so as to fulfill the exact need of the students. Thus, there exists a need for knowledge based skills rather than mere skills.