Changing the EdTech Narrative Among Schools and Teachers
Edward Keller is the co-founder of SmartScience Lab, a California-based EdTech startup that provides students and teachers with the opportunity to learn STEM through virtual labs. Due to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, SmartScience Lab experienced a surge in demand from teachers and schools. We asked Edward to share with us what the potential […]
Three Ways Technology Can Improve Student Learning
We have witnessed an unprecedented scale and intensity of disruptions to teaching practices in the last five months. Many teachers who had limited opportunities for training and guidance had to bring their classes online almost overnight. As a teacher, you may now feel ready to shut down your laptop and walk away from your desk […]
Using AI to Support the Teacher
The New Role of the Teacher More than 25 years ago, I left my career as a hematologist to enter the exciting world of education. In those 25 years, much of the way we communicate and learn has changed due to the vast amounts of information available at our fingertips. But we have also realized […]
Will AI Really Transform Education?
This story about artificial intelligence was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. For all the talk about how artificial intelligence could transform what happens in the classroom, AI hasn’t yet lived up to the hype. AI involves creating computer systems that can perform tasks that typically require […]
Positive Disruption in Education: a Checklist for Getting Edtech Demand Right
Edtech is a classic sellers’ market: governments around the world are desperate to make their spending more efficient and effective to drive up education outcomes. When an edtech supplier comes to them with glossy presentations and promises of wall-to-wall learning, it’s easy to be seduced that this – and only this – is the solution. […]
Is the Education World Prepared for Blockchain?
The instant connection of the internet has allowed us to share information and collaborate on a global scale, and this has laid the foundation for the next wave of exponential technologies, including artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and blockchain. The purpose of this is to give you an initial understanding of why blockchain technology is important […]
The Future of Education Could be in Our Stories
Speculative fiction as a genre of narrative storytelling has been used for decades to express dissatisfaction with social systems, whether in the form of gripping books such as 1984 by George Orwell or through dystopian shows such as Black Mirror. This isn’t surprising, as we have used the power of stories throughout human history to understand the world […]
Creating Cultural Harmony Through Digital Learning
How one views one’s self in the context of the other is an embedded social and cultural phenomenon. If one’s self is perceived as equal in importance to the other, whether or not the other is of differing personal, social, and/or cultural worlds, then social and natural harmony is achievable. “Through the discovery of others, we reinforce […]
Constructing a Better World Using Compassion as a First Item in the Toolbox
We live in an increasingly globalized world. Many of our children are growing up exposed to greater diversity than ever before, through direct contact with people around them, as well as via the various media channels with which they interact daily. While many inner-city schools across the UK boast over 30 different languages spoken by […]
AI is a Tool that Empowers Parents and Students
Introduction With the rise of Artificial Intelligence and the maturation of digital technologies, we are at the dawn of a new era. We are living a historical moment, facing daunting challenges with a profound mutation of the way we live, work and exist as a society. We are still unaware of the long-term effects of […]