Impoverishment of the Educational Imagination : John Connell: The Blog - 0 views
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EdTech RoundUp on 16 Feb 09Impoverishment of the Educational Imagination Posted on | January 22, 2009 | Stand after stand at the BETT Show this year seemed to bear witness to a concept of schooling that is just about as far away from the joy of learning as it appears possible to get - it could really only get worse if we were to go back to thrashing kids. Everywhere I wandered I came across little gaggles of people listening intently to someone demonstrating yet another ticky-boxy piece of junk designed to rank and grade kids, to label them, to monitor them and to 'protect' them.