Last year Christophe Valliant and I, had the pleasure of working with students from HFG Karlsruhe developing concepts building on our research project with Fraunhofer ISI, the initial trend outcomes of which can be found here. For this project students were invited to consider the opportunities presented by so called waste materials, and in doing […]
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Expanding the concept of literacy
Why do we place so much value on reading, writing and arithmetic? We have created a cultural imperialism through our schooling systems that applies focusses our skills and abilities on 2 forms of communication – that which is described in words, and that which is described in numbers. This limits our expressive capabilities, our receptive […]
Education 2.0 – Forget the 3 Rs, give them many Qs
When are schools and governments going to savvy up to the fact that the 3 Rs alone just don’t cut it any more. Structured thinking and learning by rote, are flawed thinking patterns that will only serve to restrict our social futures (or kids as they’re also known). What’s important is that kids learn to […]
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