Star Wars Uncut & Schooling
Steve Collis,
HappySteve,
Jan 24, 2012
'Star Wars Uncut' is a crowd-sourced version of Star wars. Yes, the entire movie, more than two hours long. Each participant create a 15-second slice of the movie. The organizers spliced them together to form the entire 123 minutes. Here it is on YouTibe (most of the other sites, including Vimeo and the main Star Wars Uncut web site have been staggering under the traffic). Steve Collis draws the obvious link between this achievement and education: "Understanding the schooling paradigm-shift requires one to be a culture-watcher. It is the seismic changes in society which make the schooling system appear so anachronistic and functionally irrelevant... Consider the 'technologies of schooling': classrooms, authority figures, timetables, reporting, yadayadayada. These are redundant technologies. They are the equivalent of a horse-and-cart, or a punch-card reader. Schooling as we know it is an anachronistic technology."
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