Best thing I have read all year

Makka Pakka

Enjoyed Genevieve tremendously… This comment regarding digitalia and education seemed important to me… There is a missed thing of great importance here.. Pointed out finally and clearly to me by a year ten student at lunch time on a yard duty at Glenunga international High School. “You dont get it, none of you do. Human knowledge, all of it, isnt in a library or a book or in my head anymore. It is in a searchable database in my hand. I dont need to remember it like you did. I need to know how to find it and quality control it.” She went on and was dead right.

The future is unimaginable to the analogue mind, my teaching role as product oriented educator is as relevant to these people as flat earth theory is to me. With her iPhone she had found out the relationship between the treaty of Versailles and the second world war that morning, made use of the information and put it completely aside to do the next discrete thing. “If I need it it is always there. Everything is. You need to do it different or we are gonna lose you and quite rightly. Work it out, make it relevant, or we are out of here..” I believe her. Process in primary in education now,product, “not so much”.. these young people have a short term relationship with endless changing partners to the knowledge we stand still with and hold tightly to. We should work it out and change it. Barry Wright.

Barry Wright