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 […]
How to Leverage the Democratic Potential of Social Media to Cultivate Global Citizens?
Francis Bacon’s ‘Meditationes Sacrae’ of 1597 has inscribed in it perhaps one of the world’s greatest truths; that “knowledge itself is power.” The power to inform, scrutinise, hold accountable and lead are all knowledge-dependent. They all rely on the individual having access to, and being able to mobilise, a whole range of facts and figures […]
The Future of Learning: Personalized and Curiosity-led
Imagine that you only learned how to swim 75 percent? Or that you only learned how to ride your bike 75 percent? Or as a pilot, you only learned how to fly an airplane 75 percent? We’d likely feel the downside of partial mastery, with scrapes and bruises—or worse–along the way. As silly as […]
To Prepare Kids for a Changing Economy, Invest in Great Teaching and More of It
2017 WISE Summit speaker Dr. Mike Feinberg shares his views on the future of the teaching profession. Dr. Feinberg is the Co-Founder of KIPP, a national network of 209 high-performing public charter schools serving nearly 90,000 children. When it comes to preparing students for the future, teachers today have a tough task. In the predictable economy […]
Unlocking Engagement Through Global Competence and Collaboration
Here in North America, we’re facing a crisis of student engagement. While provinces like my own brag about the “highest graduation rates ever” (at 86.5%), a peek under the covers reveals a different story. Gallup recently released the latest data from their 2016 Gallup Student Poll, which revealed that just 34% of Grade 12 […]
Global Citizenship Education: a New Ethics for the World System?
Putting every child in school, improving the quality of learning and fostering global citizenship are the three principles of the Global Education First Initiative (GEFI) launched by the United Nations in 2012. The three principles are intimately interrelated, and a cornerstone of the post-2015 development model advocated by the United Nations and its specialized […]
Three Paths to Global Citizenship
Global citizenship, even citizenship, is not a familiar concept to many Chinese people. Awareness of citizenship, which I interpret as a sense of claiming citizens’ rights and working for the betterment of community, is almost absent in Chinese society due to the strong tradition of obedience to authority. However, awareness of citizenship is essential […]
What It Means to Be a Global Citizen Today
Global citizens see themselves as part of a world community. Such a community is rapidly emerging as a result of the growing inter-connectivity and inter-dependence of people and their countries. A global citizen’s actions support the political, social, economic and moral values of this community which have also been espoused by global leaders for […]