- For decades, education has been an easy institution to define. It consisted
of a set of accepted literacy skills, a definable body of knowledge, and the
pedagogies for teaching those skills to willing students who were arranged in
straight rows. Today, for the first time in decades (in generations of
teachers), we are facing the challenge of changing our notions about
teaching and learning to adapt to a rapidly changing world. We are struggling to
rethink what it is to be educated, to reinvent the classroom, and redefine what
it is to be a teacher and a student. There is much that has changed, and for
much of it, we have responded to by attempting to ignore, filter, or to block it
out.
