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The Global Search for Education: Teachers Across America Are Reimagining School

“Our kids will be adults in a world where automated solutions absorb all routine tasks and jobs, where they will need to invent their own distinctive way to add value to their community, employer, or customer.”

The Global Search for Education: Tackling the Ticks with Tech

Could groundbreaking technologies that rapidly increase our understanding and open up new pathways mean a cure for Lyme disease one day soon?

The Global Search for Education: Keeping Up With The Machines

Computers can already tell us many things, including who to date and what stocks to buy. And given the speed at which they are being developed, how long will it be before computers can write our high school essays or speak any foreign language, or even drive us to school?

The Global Search for Education: Keeping Gender at the Forefront – Millennial Bloggers Weigh In

The Millennial Bloggers are based all over the world. They are innovators in entrepreneurship, journalism, education, entertainment, and academic scholarship. This month we ask them to share their perspectives on Gender. How else can we amplify the current dialogue around the empowerment of women?

The Global Search for Education: Are You as Good as Your Robot?

Technological advances are going to change work skills in the future and leave certain kinds of workers unemployable. A new book, Computers and the Future of Skill Demand, uses a test based on the OECD’s Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) to compare computers with humans. The test assesses three skills that education systems like to focus on which are used in today’s workplace, namely literacy, numeracy and problem solving.

The Global Search for Education: Yes They’re Ready to Teach in the Fourth Industrial Revolution!

Welcome to the Fourth Industrial Revolution. It’s a complex, volatile, ever-changing world where we have already witnessed fundamental shifts in the way we live. Given this extraordinary period of societal change, what will this mean for teaching? How should teachers equip learners with the competencies and mindset to approach learning as being life-long? How can education equip learners with agency to shape their own lives and contribute to the lives of their communities?

The Global Search for Education: Knowledge in the Age of AI

How A.I. and Immersive Tech Will Reshape Knowledge in Curriculum

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delusioninabox

Daily #1,618! It is fun, but especially for those who can see what you look like in reality.

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Growing up in a library.

philosophybits

The misuse of books is the death of sound learning. People think they know what they have read, and take no pains to learn.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education (via philosophybits)

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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

Zora Neale Hurston (via berghahnbooks)

thepowerwithin

Be curious about things. Allow your inner adventurer to shine through. If you feel the urge to learn something, meet someone, or shed more light upon an intriguing subject, then don’t hold yourself back, and let your interests shine!

Nicole Addison @thepowerwithin (via thepowerwithin)