The Global Search for Education: Planet Earth needs a new ‘Billionaires’ List
What if we defined Billionaires as entrepreneurs helping to solve earth’s most pressing challenges? What if we disrupted Forbes Magazine criteria for its annual Billionaire’s list? What if we defined Billionaires as entrepreneurs helping to solve earth’s most pressing challenges? Surely humanity, and the whole of planet earth, deserve a new type of Billionaire? As Dr. Howard Gardner points out, “the biggest...
The Global Search for Education: In Search of Professional Ethicists – Is Education a Profession? – Part 2
“We should try to raise consciousness about a teaching corps that is highly professionalized.” — Howard Gardner In the profit-above-all-world of digitization and automation, ethics and the nature of professionalism seem to be in question and under attack from all sides. Will the new robots on the block provide the same expertise and multiple intelligences we expect from human experts? What can be done to preserve...
The Global Search for Education: Online Math Learning
“The most effective learning technologies are those that track a student’s progress wherever and whenever they learn, connecting their mastery – not rote memorization – to lessons that keep them in their optimal learning zone.” — Jessie Woolley-Wilson The goal of DreamBox Learning’s interactive online math tools and games is to help learners think for themselves and make sense of math. The...
The Global Search for Education: In Search of Professional Ethicists – Do they Exist? – Part 1
“I see the range of professions, both in the United States and abroad, as under severe strain, because of both internal and external forces.” — Howard Gardner In the profit-above-all-world of digitization and automation, ethics and the nature of professionalism seem to be in question and under attack from all sides. Will the new robots on the block provide the same expertise and multiple intelligences we expect from...
Around the World in 30 Days – March 2016
C. M. Rubin’s Global Education Report From Education Fast Forward’s 17th debate in partnership with UNESCO at Mobile Learning Week in Paris, to our Twitter Chat on Multiculturalism in partnership with Edmodo, to interviewing the Top 10 finalists for the Varkey Foundation’s Global Teacher Prize, to exploring cutting edge technology that’s changing music education, to welcoming the voices of new experts to our...
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