Hong Kong is aiming to get away from its old system of learning by rote, in which pupils were endlessly drilled for a few very academic exams.
Old markers of learning accommodated newcomers: His's official seventieth-birthday portrait shows him with a microscope against a book-lined wall (Fig. 3D).
Thirteen-year-olds, instead of learning about Henry VIII, should search the internet for images of the king – "old, young, fat, thin" – and use these to "produce leaflets presenting different views of him".
Although sampling was just a technological extension of the age-old process of learning through imitation, producers who use samples now pay up instead of trying to set precedents for fair use.
Islamic universities Al-Azhar – The Islamic University of Cairo Possibly the greatest of the world's Islamic universities, Al Azhar was established in Cairo in 970 and is Egypt's oldest institute of learning.
He thrilled nearly 200,000 Catholics by celebrating Mass and made news by signing a document of interfaith fraternity with Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, the grand imam of al-Azhar, Sunni Islam's oldest seat of learning.
Fourteen-year-olds, instead of learning about the First World War, should "produce presentations to sell a history trip to the battlefields in northern France, tailoring the content and form to the perceived needs of their audience".
It shouldn't surprise you that this is also one of the oldest forms of learning: think back of the academies of ancient Greece where students spent as much time debating topics with each other as did practice leaders did 'teaching'teaching
Mitra's research, which is based on several years of testing and refining the cloud-based learning prototype, has further demonstrated the phenomenal power of pursuing a simple idea that turns a centuries-old model of learning upside down.
In losing Eco, we have lost not just Borges's heir (with, as yet, no heir apparent to Eco) but a mind shaped by an older way of learning: of antiquated research and cataloguing methods.
