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Most people associate a weak teacher with someone who is poor at communicating, can't get students engaged, is docile or timid, or just doesn't produce results. While that may have some merit, even if you are the most confident-result-producing-charismatic teacher but you have a class full of students who are not seeking you out or excited to be a part of your lessons, you are a weak teacher.

This animation was produced on behalf of the Australian delegation to the Global Education Leadership Programme (GELP). It makes the case for making big changes in education, to keep up with the big changes that are taking place in society.

As students begin producing a plethora of digital work - and connecting and sharing that work with the world - we need to take a step back and teach them to think a little more about typography and design.

"My concern, mind you, is not with the passive viewers, but with the pseudo-participants-those who may equate appreciating and recalling the accomplishments of others with doing something meaningful themselves. I worry that, in our classrooms, we have become focused on celebrating the lives of others, at the expense of the act of creation."