Guardian Unlimited Technology | Technology | Caught in the middle of a net revolution:

'Intermediaries can be cut out of the supply chain for things that you don't need to see before buying'. Thoughtful piece in the Guardian by Victor Keegan, who while pondering on why banks and estate agents haven't yet been caught up in the "new revolution, concludes "this bottom-up revolution.... is unleashing a tidal wave of creativity around the world."

What about education. The net revolution is unleashing a tidal wave of creativity in learning but it is bypassing the education system. Keegan draws attention to the research by Pew which has found that 57% of US teenagers created their own content for the net in the form of pictures, music and so forth.

Now comes the crunch point. Is the education system just another intermediary which will be swept aside. I am not sure. I increasingly fear so. At the very least the education system is going to have to change radically to accommodate and support more creative forms of learning.

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