Curation of publicly available resources to build an unique resource on its own. Has applications as ways of showing understanding of learning and application of knowledge.
The largest factor in the three, I believe, is community withdrawal and
disillusion.
Despite the exponential increases in public education and access to information
in the past century, the quality of political debate appears to have become
increasingly unsophisticated, appealing to the lowest common denominator of
understanding
In 1860 the technology was primitive but the ideas were profound and
sophisticated. In 2011 technology is sophisticated but the ideas uttered by
presidential aspirants are embarrassing in their banality, ignorance and
naivety.
In 2006 I suggested that it might be time to actually define ''Education'',
something omitted in the draft bill, and to explore its role in personal and
community life, but this was rejected as too ambitious.
This is by far the best-educated cohort in our history - on paper, anyway - but apparently lacking in courage, judgment, capacity to analyse or even simple curiosity, except about immediate personal needs.