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Show Notes
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".
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What do we mean when we say 'post-literate'?
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This seems a global problem – so is it a problem of the education system?
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Is it as simple as blaming smartphones?
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How else has education become degraded? How have progressives and conservatives combined to do this?
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Are we becoming on oral culture again? What are the consequences?
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Links:
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Are we becoming a post-literate society?, Sarah O'Connor, FT
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Have humans passed peak brain power?, John Burn-Murdoch, FT
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Visible Learning (synthesis of meta analyses), John Hattie
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Why Knowledge Matters, ED Hirsch, Harvard
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Seven Myths about Education, Daisy Christodoulou
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Insensitivity Readers!, Nina Power