So, the fundamentals of life ... not so fundamental after all. You can make babies without an egg. So, you can make babies without a female. Here's the Telegraph article and here's the scientific version.
The basis for the family unit that we have grown up with is now totally challenged. If the family unit has been the building block of society as we know it, then at some stage in the next 10 - 50 years this will be severely challenged as science continues its exponential pathway. So society will radically change as a result. We are living at an incredibly interesting time in the life of our planet and our species. It is a time of constant disruption. Assumptions we have relied upon for years/decades/centuries are being shown to be inaccurate, flawed or just plain wrong. We've always had some element of this of course - remember the Earth used to be flat and Sun revolved around the Earth. But it took centuries of development for these assumptions to be proven inaccurate. Today - it seems like every other day we find another dent or hole in our belief systems.
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Wow - so much for reflecting forward so much! Nearly a year ... lot of reflecting, just no writing.
So - I continue to be torn between what the system requires and what I think is important. Will this always be the norm for me? Suspect the answer to this is in the affirmative. The 'system' will dictate to a high degree what I need to be seen to be doing when I look at student achievement and reporting. What I need to get better at is working around the system so that what my students do is not restrained by the assessment requirements. My old mate (well, he doesn't know me, but I know him) Ray Kurzweil has a view on this - as do most commentators these days (pick any educational futurist ... from Robinson to November to Papert to ...) I'm thinking that just maybe I need to have a massive rethink about the courses I prepare for students. Big picture stuff here ... maybe the likes of the Technovation Challenge should be the starting point for a year's work at senior levels? Students would need to have a vision for a project then apply a range of software/hardware development concepts to the project which could see them easily meet assessment requirements for NCEA ... except for one thing. Such a project is a group project and the 'system' requires me to grade individuals. Need more thought on this ... |
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