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What does it mean to 'know' today?
This background paper is by George Siemens, a Canadian based leading theorist on the changing nature and needs of learning, who was a provocateur at the Global Summit 2006. He asks: Are today?s students so overloaded with information that they are learning in a different way? Is our education system so antiquated that it isn't teaching anything anymore? Are educational institutions government funded dictatorships?