Technology redefines talents

Published: July 20, 2007, 9:57 am

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High Definition television is great, an advancement in technology that makes multimedia seem even more real. But it's also redefining who is going to be a television star, as some personalities become unusable when every pore can be seen - hi def becomes dicey. The industrial revolution made Herbert Spencer in 1859 design an American school curriculum that concentrated on the sciences. 150 years later this is still true, although there's a new revolution that should be influencing our attitudes, curricula, teaching and learning. And it is in some respects, but Dr Yong Zhao believes educators may only be a very little way along the change curve. We now see countries fighting new cold wars, not industrial ones with bomb threats and infamous red buttons, but cyber attacks where Russia tries to shut down Estonia, China tries to attack Taiwan by ramming it's internet systems. In children's lives we are also seeing changes in the way that they escape. When we were younger we might have

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