“there are not enough intellectual heroes” is for this very reason that we never “allow” the individual voice to emerge, we want to shape it, mold it to fit and then we wonder why we have no heroes.
Giving the tools to make personal choices and ‘seeing’ possibility is the 21st-century breaking story
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Thank you for the interesting post which got me thinking about realms of reality / contexts in which we learn – being African, I see kids educated with ipads under trees in natural environments, built environments, the phygital, virtual and someday in outer space – digital learning can take place in any one of these 6 arenas … as can ‘trading / marketing / retail / finance’ take on different forms in these environments (retail is not dead, its the form of retail that has changed) … as an innovator, creative artist and design thinker – I enjoy using an experiential pedagogy like ‘theatre of the oppressed’ in the 21st century transmedia storytelling space … clearly we cannot apply industrial age models (with production, distribution and consumerism theories that hold true for built environ – but no longer hold true in other realms … while I also agree that personal learning pathways can be built, it is when such pathways become entrenched, systematic and programmatic that we force innovators to evolve into ‘the usual story’ / stereotype and as a result there are not enough intellectual heroes around who can actually think and see their way clearly through the choices we have to make as human beings living in a digital age …