However, I don’t think that this type of parent would allow a child to use the tech/thinking tools to author the child’s own learning and knowledge.

I think the helicopter parent described would be too afraid to let go and let his/her student take the reins of student’s learning. Might get a virus or actually spend time with actual world changing ideas or something…

Of course, there are helicopter teachers (helicopter schools?) too… We may all be afraid of this shift in thinking toward finding/creating your own knowledge. We can’t have people making mistakes, so let’s micro manage and make certain we have terrific standardized test scores.

That’s too bad (both helicopter parents and schools) because that misses the point of the new education system that is coming. The new system will prepare people for their future in the knowledge based society that’s here.