This year has seen increasingly noisy calls for revolution in ICT education, from Google's Eric Schmidt to Ian Livingstone - president of video game publisher Eidos - people have been stating the bleeding obvious: Our children need to learn how to build and design digital technologies, and not be passive users, passengers in the sidecar of a revolution that no one imagined would affect every aspect of people's lives.
Douglas Rushkoff makes the argument in the most cohesive fashion
in his book: Program or be programmed.
"The real question is, do we direct technology, or do we let ourselves be directed by it and those who have mastered it?" he wrote.
"'Choose the former, and you gain access to the control panel of civilization. Choose the latter, and it could be the last real choice you get to make."
