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/521/ Too Smart to Read ft. C. Derick Varn
Manage episode 520025428 series 2933145
On the crisis in literacy.
Poet, podcaster and teacher, C. Derick Varn – who has taught in Mexico, Korea, Egypt and the US, at various levels – joins Alex and George to interrogate the coming "post-literate society".
What do we mean when we say 'post-literate'?
This seems a global problem – so is it a problem of the education system?
Is it as simple as blaming smartphones?
How else has education become degraded? How have progressives and conservatives combined to do this?
Are we becoming on oral culture again? What are the consequences?
For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast
Links:
Are we becoming a post-literate society?, Sarah O'Connor, FT
Have humans passed peak brain power?, John Burn-Murdoch, FT
Visible Learning (synthesis of meta analyses), John Hattie
Why Knowledge Matters, ED Hirsch, Harvard
Seven Myths about Education, Daisy Christodoulou
Insensitivity Readers!, Nina Power
400 episodes
Manage episode 520025428 series 2933145
On the crisis in literacy.
Poet, podcaster and teacher, C. Derick Varn – who has taught in Mexico, Korea, Egypt and the US, at various levels – joins Alex and George to interrogate the coming "post-literate society".
What do we mean when we say 'post-literate'?
This seems a global problem – so is it a problem of the education system?
Is it as simple as blaming smartphones?
How else has education become degraded? How have progressives and conservatives combined to do this?
Are we becoming on oral culture again? What are the consequences?
For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast
Links:
Are we becoming a post-literate society?, Sarah O'Connor, FT
Have humans passed peak brain power?, John Burn-Murdoch, FT
Visible Learning (synthesis of meta analyses), John Hattie
Why Knowledge Matters, ED Hirsch, Harvard
Seven Myths about Education, Daisy Christodoulou
Insensitivity Readers!, Nina Power
400 episodes
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