If we are currently skirting the edge of a learning revolution, there is a real danger that our schools will lag behind, rather like our armies, which were always trained for the last war.
Teachers are smarter than students.
Each of these assumptions is present in my classroom to some extent. Traditionally structured classrooms, designed for print literacy and linear premises, could go a long way towards explaining current behaviour and learning problems in children. While we complain about the loss of attention span in our students, we are beginning to notice a dramatic increase in attention range the ability to surf three television channels at once, or to listen to the radio and study at the same time. Perhaps teaching children in large groups may soon become unmanageable, or perhaps us teachers have to change. Our students have grown up submerged in a world of immediate infotainment.