Around the World in 30 Days – April 2016
C. M. Rubin’s Global Education Report 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 and strengthen the quality of our professions and what does this mean for learning that...
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...
Around The World In 30 Days – April 2015
C. M. Rubin’s global education report In April, I continued my conversations with thought leaders around the world on many topics including the role of standardized testing, global inequality, creativity, and innovation in our world today. I saw first hand the amazing work that Creative Oklahoma is doing in that state to nurture the arts with schools, business leaders and communities. This is the age of innovation and all our...
The Global Search for Education: 革新, Innovación, Innovation, ابتكار, Inovação, инновация, イノベーション, নবপ্রবর্তিত বস্তু, Innovazione!
Justin Bieber and Scooter Braun – Past TDIA Honorees Winston Churchill once said, “Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.” Welcome to the age of innovation. Governments crave it, great entrepreneurs awe us with it; and where would all our futures be without it? There are those born to lead and those content to follow; the former are most likely to be...
The Global Search for Education: Can I Have a Hammer?
“We need to let kids discover the problems they want to solve, like Steve Jobs, Jack Dorsey or 15-year-old Jack Andraka who created the pancreatic cancer testing strip.” – Craig Hatkoff “When your only tool is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail.” – Abe Maslow Honorees of the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards receive a ball-pein hammer as their official award – nicknamed...
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