Month: June 2013

Brussel sprout ice cream cone…

…or chocolate covered broccoli. However you want to call it, it’s disguising something with something else to try to make it more appealing. We might try it once, even twice, but pretty soon, once we’ve licked off the chocolate we’ll recognize the core of the thing for what it is**. Basically we should “Make the Brussel sprout ice cream cone…

Sugata Mitra speaks truth but…

“Teachers are the way they are because of the examination system in schools. They don’t have a choice.” Professor Sugata Mitra I agree, our examination system is ancient and horrible. Not to mention demeaning. It helps school communities to exist parallel to the ‘real world’ with the false assurance that we are preparing learners to Sugata Mitra speaks truth but…