I have over 20 years of experience as a biology and geography teacher in Sotunki Upper Secondary School and Sotunki Distance learning Centre in the City of Vantaa, Finland. My work orientation, nevertheless, has always been more of a philosopher of learning and school.

Straight from my early work years I found it curious, but at the same time fascinating, how the classroom reality in the school as we know it still so faithfully defended itself against the external world, which, however, was experiencing a deep reaching technological and social transition.

Recently a plausible explanation entered my mind. Learning and school are two completely separate and unrelated concepts.

The evidence is all around us. It can hardly stay undetected. Reshaping a work culture typical to school is not possible unless admitted that it is not possible. “What we cannot speak about we must consign to silence."

I have also sunk my arms deep in clay with virtual learning surroundings in Second Life.

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http://www.sotunki.edu.vantaa.fi

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