Mr. Kevin Marshall:

I agree with everything Ms Waters said. On the notion of fake news, none of us is immune to that and to being susceptible to what is out there, particularly as the world has changed so quickly and the information is coming at us so quickly. The more educated and well read one is at least reduces the opportunity to be taken in by fake news. Some of the bigger skills outside of regular curriculum we need to think about include this notion of problem solving and computational thinking, which is beginning to gain a bit of credence within our system. We have an incubation lab in Microsoft in Sandyford called the dream space. It has been open for about 18 months and to date we have had 20,000 students, both primary and secondary, come through the door. It is a three to three and a half hour engagement and the curriculum is tailored to the particular age group but we all talk about AI and the challenges therein, the good stuff associated with it and the notion of facial recognition and what that is and what it is not. Our ten year-olds are acutely aware of what those technologies are, more so than we are. Those types of ideas can be imparted to the likes of working with An Cosán and other organisations such as that. It is about education and we have to keep at it. We have to be more targeted and streamlined and we have to be a bit more fearful. These numbers are challenging, including the literacy numbers. We need a different way of thinking about this, a different national conversation on it.