Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

This is a set of questions that might be posed by students but the answers aren't answers in the usual sense - they probe the question itself, asking why the question matters, what the question tells us (the education system) about ourselves, what we can do in response, and some practical suggestions. That said, I think the text in the first blue section ('why this question matters') has been mixed up with something else (so just skip that box; the rest of the article makes sense).

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Stephen Downes Stephen Downes, Casselman, Canada
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