Education is over…
William Rankin,
Medium,
Apr 17, 2020
This article is full of first-class zingers. Like, for example, "Dr John Hattie's 'visible learning' is as academically rigorous as Dr Pepper and as credible as Dr Oz." And, for example, "failing to reach a certain percentage of students is not only a 'cost of doing business'; it offers a tasty secondary market." His main point in this article is that "the structure of modern education get so precarious... Because it was built on a lie: the lie that information is the most important educational component." He continues, "it's time we acknowledge that information is a commodity, and focusing on it is actually setting the bar far too low for learners." Now I wouldn't fall back on the old data-wisdom pyramid as he does, but he certainly has a point.
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