The Global Search for Education: Who’s Working on Keeping Our Data Safe?
Jul18

The Global Search for Education: Who’s Working on Keeping Our Data Safe?

“We’re working on two areas to improve confidentiality of cloud computing.”  — Jon Crowcroft Data and the intelligence that can be gained from it is seen as a solution to solving many of the world’s largest challenges, but despite the great opportunities, there are also significant risks. Data-based companies use data to make money. As computer systems become increasingly centralized and ubiquitous, the...

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Around the World in 30 Days – April 2018
Apr29

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...

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The Global Search for Education: Keeping Up With The Machines
Apr10

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...

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Around the World in 30 Days – May 2016
May30

Around the World in 30 Days – May 2016

C. M. Rubin’s Global Education Report “Robots that care for us as we grow old. Cyberattacks against our homes. Extinct animals brought back to life. Ubiquitous sensors eliminating privacy as we now know it. Everybody will have a scandal! In ten years, a small earpiece will whisper what is being said to you in your native language near simultaneously to the foreign language being spoken.” I agree with Alec Ross,...

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The Global Search for Education: Play it Again Spirio
May16

The Global Search for Education: Play it Again Spirio

Play it Again Spirio Many experts say it could be as soon as 30 years when machines will be capable of doing almost any job that a human can. Globally honored musician Leonard Cohen once wrote, “Music is the emotional life of most people.” Music is a universal language; the poetry of the soul. We experience this when we listen to a live concert pianist’s fingers glide over the 88 keys of a Steinway piano; when we see...

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