What do 500 members of the public think about the future of education? What do they hope for and what are they concerned about? A first (small) insight to all you avid BCH Blog readers of some of the comments that have come back as part of a 500 strong demographically sampled ‘Citizens Panel’ – when they were asked to comment on a range of issues about educational futures.
I recently gave a presentation to a conference in Mexico that was investigating what sorts of skills, particularly e-competencies, are needed for learning and living in the 21st century. One of the projects that is associated with this group is Education Futures.
Rory Carroll is wearing the robes this week, exhorting us to look to the Mayans for an awful reminder that nothing lasts for ever and that we ignore the signs of imminent doom at our peril: much of the article is a recapitulation of Jared Diamond’s argument in Collapse:
According to Diamond’s thesis…the ancients built a [...]
