At the start of this term, my school invited Waleed Aly to speak to us. He’s an academic, writer and TV personality who is very good at making people think. He spoke to us about globalisation, but also about identity and being ‘discerning’. He argued that in this age of “infobesity“, at a time where chemical weapons in Syria are dwarfed by Kim Kardashian’s latest photo shoot, teachers are the ones who should be helping students to discern what is significant and what isn’t. He was happy that that was our job, not his. Continue reading “Discerning the Filter Bubble”