My suspicion is that they know far more about this than we adults.
Never have the young shared so much, so often in
so many different ways.
Teaching and
lecturing are largely lone wolf activities in classrooms. Schools, colleges and
Universities share little. Educational professionals are deeply suspicious of
anything produced outside of their classroom or their institution.
When it comes to creativity, my own
view is that the music, drama and other creative skills my own offspring have
gained, have mostly been acquired outside of school.
Universities were failing badly on the three skills they studied; critical
thinking, complex reasoning and communications
Across the Arab world young people have collaborated on Blogs,
Twitter, Facebook and Youtube to bring down entire regimes. Not one of them has
been on a digital literacy course.
Pushing rounded, sophisticated, informal skills into a square, subject-defined environment is not the answer.