Hack Education

GUEST BLOG BY JOHN EDWARDS

Recently, I noted a couple of suggestions to "hack education". No one seemed to pick up the reference.

This article puts the idea into a context which might be better understood. I am not fully confident that "whiz kids can solve the problem" but the outcomes could be very interesting.  Perhaps worthy of finding some sponsors and money to incent the "kids" to come up with some innovation. There is the little problem of defining the problem(s) to be solved.  :-)

Such an approach would put the problem into a different context. One clearly does not want to be slavishly on the side of technology but using the metaphor and the "progressive" association of the practice places the problem into an objective laboratory setting where irrationality will have a harder time standing up to the pressing need for a solution.

What a potentially interesting approach to crstyllizing a range of solutions which may or may not include the "rump" stakeholders! Methinks that the educational impasse cannot be much more profound than the border conundrum.

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