Panic in the streets of New York

David Shaffer and James Gee on why learning technologies (and investment) are crucial in US education today: It's not just about better, faster, smarter - it's underpinned by a fundamental paradigm shift away from (only) knowing how to do stuff, to preparation for life long learning in it's most innovative sense: finding, evaluating and applying information, tools and techniques. This is why top twenty skills lists can only ever function as  temporary markers.

Before every child is left behind: How epistemic games can solve the coming crisis in education (pdf):

"The coming crisis is this: Young people in the United States today are being prepared—in school and at home—for “commodity jobs” in a world that will, very soon, only reward people who can do “innovative work” and punish those who can’t." 

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