Back to reality

摘要

The world seems to be changing at a faster rate than at any time in history but is it really all changing? Life in schools has certainly transformed in recent decades - there are interactive whiteboards, iPads and other hand-held devices around but has the core content of the curriculum really changed? Not much. All the digital wizardry may make the content more appealing and hopefully digestible but the substance of what is taught has been largely stable for some time now. So the biggest change in schools isn't what pupils learn but how they are expected to learn it and what that means for their relationship with the real world, as opposed to the virtual. There is increasing concern that children and young people are spending long hours every day indoors in front of screens and seldom go outside to experience the physical freedom that their parents enjoyed. It appears that, as society has embraced technology, we are in danger of letting our relationship with the real world fall away.