I have read your blog for a long time now and admire your insights into learning. My 5 and 7 year old children are entering a ’school system’ that lurches forward, then falls backwards, as professional, political, financial and practical pressures build for educators. They are connected at home and technology is not used effectively at school (lets face it, at most schools). As a parent, I am against the standardisation of experience for young people and keen on the community building that can take place around learning spaces, online and geographically. We must all insist that the individual has opportunity and responsibility to make things better for all. It is not only re: technology, of course. Parents are a key group and this article, about the power of public school parents to insist on sensible, progressive policy, needs to be replicated over and over again in a range of areas: http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/maralynparker/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/gospel_according_to_barrydont_cross_the_line_on_basic_ethics/

@Darcy1968