One of the fairly regular activities that my four year old daughter, Maddie, and I participate in together is “computer time,” where she indicates what website she wants to look at, or what activity she wants to engage in, I get her set up, and then largely let her navigate the experience herself.
At the moment this includes several different programs -

Tux Paint, which is an open source artistic tool that includes different stamps, patterns, colours, and filters
Google Earth – this is largely used to look at volcanoes and underwater topography, …

Editor’s Note: At one stage this post had a point, but somewhere along the line it seems to have derailed into a rant against the establishment.
Criticism
The challenges and obstacles facing the evolution and revolution of education can be traced back to a few key ideas – those of stratification, hierarchies, institutionalisation, power, and control. Essentially, characteristics that have nothing to do with education and learning, but everything to do with how it is controlled, dictated and managed.
Schools have come to symbolise clearly structured environments where teacher presides over a …