Via the techrhet list serv, I encountered Trent Bateson’s article in Campus Technology (subscriptions are free), in which he suggests that “Educators still primarily work within the mental barriers of the past tense.”
His thoughtful critique of ways of education, and the ways of knowing which they privilege, links well with Jenkins, I think, and includes some excellent links, too. If you have not read Vannevar Bush’s 1945 piece from the Atlantic, do follow the link and do so. The power of imagination, and the power to predict what a dynamic society (national and global) might need, even if the means to bring it to reality are not yet available, should encourage all our speculations, however far-fetched they may seem, about the future in which we might teach and learn.
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