In this episode, Gerlinde Koppitsch, a Senior Lecturer in English for Engineering and IT and a researcher at the Carinthia University, Austria has a simple and honest conversation with the host Ioana Cretu. They reflect on how teachers as well as their learners stand on quicksand rather than solid ground; how teachers strive to redefine their own role; how students, who are more digital consumers than digital natives, cope with demotivation and confusion as they struggle to understand why they need to be in classrooms when answers are all readily available at the touch of a button. Interesting terms like deskilling, reskilling, mis-skilling, never-skilling and half-life of knowledge, internationalization – get discussed. Gerlinde also talks of societal changes affecting education focus in Austria. Listen in!