The Global Search for Education: Could a Robot Replace a Teacher? Should a Robot Replace a Teacher?
There’s a robot in each of our backpacks. Now, of course, there’s always room for improvement in these machines designed to execute one or more tasks with speed and precision, but who can deny that the likes of Alexa and her ever expanding army of pals are just getting better every day. And in the years ahead, the Alexa’s of this world will drastically change the way we live, the way we learn and the way we teach. Some Futurists...
Around the World in 30 Days – April 2018
C.M. Rubin’s Global Education Report Nuclear weapons have been used twice in warfare: in the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. As the threat of nuclear warfare drew closer last year, it was announced that Beatrice Fihn and her advocacy group, The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), had won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize for their inspiring work behind the first treaty to prohibit nuclear arms. The...
The Global Search for Education: Meet the Communications Disruptor
“I like to think that we’ll find ways to partner with our AI creations — to enhance life, bringing about more shared equity and prosperity, and to enable humans to connect more deeply with one another.” — Chris Messina Many know Chris Messina as the guy who invented the Twitter hashtag, but Chris Messina has actually spent the last decade being a game changer with many other innovations including Drupal, Firefox,...
The Global Search for Education: Keeping Up With The Machines
“We should be changing the goals of education to focus on deeper learning: Relevance of what is taught, to build motivation, and personalization of the What and How; Versatility, to create ‘Renaissance humans’, which brings robustness to face whatever life throws at us; Transfer, insuring that what we learn in the narrow confines of schools, translates into actionability in real-life situations.” — Charles Fadel...
The Global Search for Education: Earth Day Around the World
Teachers around the world are currently faced with the task of preparing students for a world transformed by climate change. “What the World Thinks about Climate Change in 7 Charts” is a good place to get some key facts about the global issues. In October of last year, former UN Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs Thomas Gass noted, “Educators have an essential role in making sure the SDGs...
Around the World in 30 Days – March 2018
C.M. Rubin’s Global Education Report How do you develop a cost-effective quality learning model for the 21st Century for disadvantaged children in small rural schools scattered across Colombia? Yidan Prize winner Vicky Colbert tells us this month how she focused on building an innovative education model in which key strategies were cooperative learning and cross-peer tutoring. Colbert and her team at Fundacion Escuela Nueva...
Recent Comments