A cheery title for a Friday morning, dont’ cha think? I seem to be bombarded with articles  that question the readiness of the education system to meet the needs of students in our tech-whizz-bang age. I’m not sure if it’s just become a trendy topic or whether I’m just looking out for it more (have you noticed when you buy a new car, suddenly everyone else on the road seems to have bought the same one?)

Mixergy’s recent article, College Is A Waste Of Time And Money. Here’s A Better Way. What Do You Think? outlines what is wrong with the college system in the US. Two weeks ago Seth Godin ranted on the failings of textbooks and Don Tapscott predicted The Impending Demise of the University. This weekTechCrunch  bemoans the quality of high tech education in the US and Demos published The Edgeless University. It seems a storm is brewing.

Which is very nice for SocialLearn.  We’ve spent 2 years  really understanding how the social web can provide a solution for those that don’t fit in a ‘one-size-fits-all’ education system. But we are also a team who like to question everything, so it was refreshing to be handed a copy of Neil Selwyn’s The digital native – myth and reality. In Neil’s own words, he “offers a critical perspective on popular and political understandings of young people and digital technologies – characterised by notions of ‘digital natives’, the ‘net generation’ and other commonsense portrayals of expert young technology users”.