Endless Culture

Looking at education-related tweets it would seem that the most vilified idea in education at the moment is the idea that the child is an e...

The world of myth is one dominated by fate – a supra-human imperative keeping people in their place. In our high-tech world we would like t...

According to 21st century pedagogic sagacity, there is one overriding imperative for teachers: Don’t be the sage on the stage; be instead...

The Element  and  Finding Your Element  are Sir Ken Robinson’s venture into the self-help market, where he delivers a message that is, in o...

The novel  Frankenstein  by Mary Shelley is a meditation on monstrosity in various forms. Unspoken in the background is a monstrous tumult ...

If Sugata Mitra thinks of himself as basically a humble scientist investigating the benefits of educational technology, he is deceiving him...

A disturbing number of people are still talking about personalising education – making it person-centred. Often, this talk about the student...

By some strange synergy, the rise of EdTech – that product of a supposedly post-industrial industry – has gone hand in hand with the rise o...

We live in an age which, for some odd reason, needs desperately to believe that it is continually being born anew – that its essence is som...

At no time in history have people been so obsessed with their tools. The edtech discourse turns discussions of education into discussions a...