Curating content for the classroom
Catch a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Chinese proverb Catch a man a fish and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity. Karl Marx Catch a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and he has no time left to do his day-job. Mark O’Neil Three contrasting views of the world. Let’s look at what these might be taken to mean in the context of a teacher, and teaching. There is a lot being written out there in cyberspace right now about how the digital revolution in the classroom spells the end of the textbook. In Australia, for example, there are state and federal government initiatives to collect vast amounts of discrete digital content so that teachers can search for content and build their lessons for a new curriculum from the ground up. The principle is that teaching a man to fish feeds him for a lifetime. The