The Personalisation of Education
I’m acutely aware that I work in an industry filled with creative people. People who have a talent for interpreting a syllabus, for understanding teacher and student needs and for fashioning and developing a product or a service that meets those needs. I’m also aware that this is an industry with a conscience. That we believe in what we do and that it makes a difference. Educational publishing has an opportunity to use its creativity, experience and social conscience to explore how technology can improve what we do and how we do it so that modern school needs can be better met. Here is a phrase that gets bandied about a lot. “School is broken.” But is it? In 1899, William T. Harris, the US commissioner of education, celebrated the fact that US schools had developed the “appearance of a machine,” one that teaches the student “to behave in an orderly manner, to stay in his own place, and not get in the way of others.” In other words – sch