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01 August, 2018
Parents are rushing to enrol their children in a revolutionary new state school that will scrap year levels, school bells and the word 'classroom'. Lindfield Learning Village won't be the kind of school most adults recognise. Teaching will happen around 'waterholes' or 'campfires'. Students will take responsibility for their own learning. And high schoolers will mentor kindy kids.
That’s when it hit me: At least as far as these gentlemen were concerned, this was a talk about the future of technology. Taking their cue from Elon Musk colonizing Mars, Peter Thiel reversing the aging process, or Sam Altman and Ray Kurzweil uploading their minds into supercomputers, they were preparing for a digital future that had a whole lot less to do with making the world a better place than it did with transcending the human condition altogether and insulating themselves from a very real and present danger of climate change, rising sea levels, mass migrations, global pandemics, nativist panic, and resource depletion. For them, the future of technology is really about just one thing: escape
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Catholic Worldview,
Ethical,
ICT Capability,
Sustainability
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