Rethinking Liberal Arts Education for the Twenty-First Century
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the world was full of confidence about the inevitability of growing forms and processes of globalization—instantaneous communication, flattened economy, massive movement of people—and the resulting need for new forms of education. Intellectual and business leaders talked about how the world as we had known it in the […]
To Capture the Benefits of AI, Schools Need to Rethink Their Models
Technological advances over the last two decades now bring machines knocking on employers’ doors. Artificial intelligence (AI) software can already prepare taxes, drive cars, write news articles, and compose poetry; and recent reports suggest that roughly half to two-thirds of jobs today are at risk of computer automation. As AI handles a growing number […]
The Role of Private Education in Sub-Saharan Africa
Highlighting the work of Bridge International Academies in Liberia, Nicholas Kristof recently wrote in the New York Times: “Let’s worry less about ideology and more about how to help kids learn.” I couldn’t agree more with Kristof. Private education provision has an essential role to play in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and other developing regions. With rapid growth in […]
Who Moved My Intelligence?
The title of this article is inspired by a self-help book from the 1990’s called ‘Who moved my Cheese: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life’. Despite significant criticism, this book became a best seller and a popular tool in any change manager’s back pocket. The implications […]
What Will AI Do for Students and Teachers?
The hype is never far away from Artificial Intelligence. Back in 1953, Marvin Minsky, a founding father of AI, declared: “We’re going to make machines intelligent. We are going to make them conscious,” to which his contemporary Douglas Engelbart replied: “you’re going to do all that for the machines? What are you going to […]
La inteligencia artificial puede ahorrar dinero y conseguir resultado de élite mundial
La educación matemática en muchas partes de EEUU no está a la altura de una potencia mundial. Un reciente estudio para la Organización de Desarrollo y Cooperación Económica (OCDE) situó al país como el 41 del mundo en matemáticas de primaria. Desde 2003 la situación no sólo no ha mejorado si no que ha ido […]
Flipping the Flipped Classroom
The flipped classroom model of teaching has been popular among educators around the world for about a decade, thanks both to faculty experimentation and the tremendous success of organizations such as Khan Academy, which make instructional videos available for teachers and students. This flipped model is built around recording lectures for consumption outside of class, with […]
Harnessing the Power of AI to Transform Education
Special Focus : Reinventing Education for the AI Age “Human plus machine isn’t the future, it’s the present,” Garry Kasparov said in a recent TED talk. And this “present” is transforming the world of education at a rapid pace. With children increasingly using tablets and coding becoming part of national curricula around the world, technology is […]
To Enable Powerful Learning, Put Pedagogy Before Tech
In many cases, there seems to be a tendency to water down expectations when it comes to integrating technology. During a recent presentation on digital pedagogy for deeper learning I asked attendees to discuss then share how they were effectively integrating technology in their classroom, school, or district. There was an emphasis on describing […]
Remodelling Higher Education in a Changing World
Like many established institutions, higher education (HE) providers are struggling to work out how to engage with a changing world order. The rise of populist movements is challenging some of the fundamental concepts on which HE is built. HE providers across the world are being challenged to prove their worth to society. While these challenges […]