We doubt if there has ever been a time when humankind as a whole was so aware of the dangers and opportunities that abound, and so ambivalent about what to do about it, and about the possible outcomes. If there was ever the need to heed Paulo Freire’s (2000) advice about the role of education, it is now: “Act upon and transform the world [in order to] move towards ever new possibilities of a fuller and richer life individually and collectively” (p. 32). This is as good a definition of the purpose of deep learning as any.
