Content is a print concept
Dave Cormier,
Dave's Educational Blog,
Jun 15, 2016
Dave Cormier analyzes the history of 'content'. "In the 12th and 13th centuries, we see the vague beginnings of the modern university. We see, at almost the same time, the birth of thought control at universities," he writes and then cites his 'favourite educator', Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi: "Imagine, he says, if we took all the things that people needed to know and broke them into small pieces." So 'Content' requires a printing press, but even more, "It requires authority/power in the form of a government/agency/publisher deciding what is 'required' to learn." Good stuff.
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