Educational urgency
Arte (French-German TV channel) was interviewing young Germans picked randomly in the street this week-end. The question: “do you know what the holocaust is?” A few embarrassed “no” later, it became evident that unless the educational system does something to occupy the online landscape were these kids live, a few hard-earned lessons will go down the memory hole.
When the public will discover this, the internet will be the usual suspect. Truth is the educational system has the exact same problem than the media or music industry: a chronic incapacity to follow the new habits of their “audience”. The reasons are different (resistance from professors, lack of training and budget, inertia of centralized programs or presidential interruptions) but the results the same.
It is time for more class blogging and Youtube short documentaries.
November 14th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
Well observed. Speed is something to which youth has access to especially in learning, however established institutions, in this case educational systems, are more often than not notorious slow learners. How do you make an old slow learning institutions acquire the capacity of fast learning?