Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
When I was a kid we played war and somebody always had to play the Germans (it's hard to believe I was born only 14 years after the end of the Second World War, hm?). That's the essence of play - imaging, considering, mapping out scenarios. That's also how you learn. Yes, I know it's fashionable (and reactionary) to say you should never do things like learn how to plot a terrorist attack. But if you have no conception of how such an attack is planned, how do you possibly spot it, and respond to it? Ignorance is not education.

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Stephen Downes Stephen Downes, Casselman, Canada
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