This is wrong in almost every way.

1. The only time people divide knowledge and skills is in arguments like this when people are claiming that others divide them. In reality it’s only ever a debate about emphases https://twitter.com/halfon4harlowmp/status/1348230910160855051

2. Arguments that our system isn’t fit for the 21st century are odd given that we’re a fifth of the way through it. It’s empty rhetoric. Similar things have been said for about a century.

3. ‘Tech will revolutionise education’ is such an old claim it’s been discovered in Hieroglyphs in Egyptian tombs. Tech has made some useful contributions. There is no evidence that it can, or that it should. Tech companies always offer answers to questions teachers aren’t asking

4. If you scrap GCSEs then no student can move school after year 11. This will be fun for students at schools with no sixth form.

5. The factory model as described here is a myth. I *wish* schools could educate as reliably, efficiently and effectively as a factory creates its products. Schools are not factories.

6. We do not need a radical request-engineering of the classroom. I’m not sure what that even means. Something about AI?

7. Lockdown has taught us that you can make the most out of remote learning, but it’s a poor cousin of face-to-face education. Blended learning massively favours the already privileged.

8. There is little evidence that AI and robotics will have much impact. It sounds groovy, but novelty always does. Assuming it will is quite presumptive. Multiple tech-adoption disasters testify to the peril of this naive enthusiasm.

9. Apart from that, I liked this.