Comments on: The Evitable Future of the Digital

By: Jerry Hamrick

Jerry Hamrick — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 20:49:23 +0000

Capitalists do not like uncertainty. They want Congress, the Fed, or anyone or anything else who can, to guarantee them a certain future. The market, they say, does not like uncertainty. But our education is supposed to take a group of youngsters today and train them so that they will fit into the very uncertain world of tomorrow. Big problem. Capitalists don’t do it, but teachers must. Them that has the gold makes the rules.

So, our education system needs to be changed so that it shapes the world of the future. It needs to be changed so that our children, day in and day out, year in and year out, carry out tasks that teach them and, at the same time, build the future. So when our students finish their schooling they enter into a world that they helped build. This may sound easier said than done, but it is not. It is not hard to do at all. All it takes is a little systems work.

By: Jay Scott

Jay Scott — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:15:24 +0000

I agree. I want to add that education is a also tool of cultural continuity, so it’s deliberately conservative in some aspects, and I think one of the problems is that that conservatism is prone to leak into other aspects.

By: GaborPor

GaborPor — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 21:13:41 +0000

distribution of skill with digital media and online communication is uneven even in young people That's a key insight, IMHO. See (some of) the research done by webuse.org supporting this observation.