Knowledge, skills and When Harry Met Sally
Posted in Teaching on March 29th, 2020 by steve“I’m reading Martin Robinson’s ‘Curriculum: Athena versus the Machine’ at the moment. It’s a wonderful read. The world of education is infested with instrumentalism, talk of ’21st century skills’, uninformed speculation about artificial intelligence, non-stop bullshitting about ‘real world problem-solving’ and a fixation with making education ‘relevant to students lives’. It’s more than slightly depressing …” (more)
[Education and other Things, 29 March]