Top 16 Hackneyed Lists
Actually, they are not the top anything — just 16 I happened to lift out of Twitter in the space of an hour or so last night Am I the only person who now automatically ignores any tweet or post that...
View ArticleEFF White Paper: From Learner Voice To Emerging Leaders
The knowledge necessary to function successfully and follow a career was seen to already exist: it could be handed down from experts and leaders to learners and workers. In the Industrial Age,...
View ArticleCelestine Talks to Education Fast Forward
There are strategies that teachers and schools can employ to ensure that technology becomes purposeful and systematic. There can be little doubt that its potential is very great, as it provides the...
View ArticleEducation’s Conspicuous and Abiding Fallacy
There is a conspicuous and abiding fallacy residing at the heart of formal education, namely that what is taught is what is learned, that what the teacher teaches is what the student learns. Education...
View ArticleThe Risk of Learning Without Prospects
In the 1980s, German philosopher and provocateur, Peter Sloterdijk, proclaimed ‘the end of the belief in education’. Despite society’s declaration that Knowledge Is Power, young people, he said, live…...
View ArticleDigitizing the Parish Pump
Evgeny Morozov dismantles the lazy thinking and the fundamentally anti-progressive notions outlined in Gavin Newsom’s recent book: Citizenville:How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent...
View ArticleEducated, not State-Educated
I have enjoyed reading the reaction in the UK media following Eddie Mair’s typically relaxed laceration of The Man Who Would Be King on Newsnight at the weekend. Mair, for me, as someone who listens to...
View ArticleOvercoming the Schooled Mind
Sean Connery, in his thoughtful memoir Being A Scot, tells the story of finding himself on a plane seated next to a compatriot, a young woman. Talking to her, he found that she was a literature student...
View ArticleParaguay’s Landfill Orchestra: the creative urge knows no bounds
A piece in today’s Guardian led me to this amazing example of human endeavour and creativity in the worst circumstances. Wonderful!
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