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The digital revolution & edtech - going beyond the hype

The child as an empty vessel: a defence of emptiness in education

Child as a blank slate

Looking at education-related tweets it would seem that the most vilified idea in education at the moment is the idea that the child is an empty vessel. If people who pride themselves on their progressive approach to education can agree …


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Why so counter revolution?

If this were a genuine revolution that might put an end once and for all to man's inhumanity to man, we would sign up immediately, take up arms and join the fight. But, as we see it, it raises no such hopes. Instead, the talk of revolution sounds more like hype that conceals the offline growth of corporations, the money economy, and a technological colossus that puts pseudo forms individuality in place of a deeper and more meaningful reconciliation between the overly stressed ego and the world from which it has been estranged.

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