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,...
The Global Search for Education: Top Global Teacher Bloggers – Cultivating Young Readers
Summer is coming. Book lists are already online. As a parent, I was determined to cultivate a love of reading in my children. Reading is something I love to do and so I was committed to ensuring that my kids appreciate and understand the power of language to convey and express concepts. Language is the ultimate tool of humanity. Our Global Teacher Bloggers are pioneers and innovators in fields such as technology integration,...
The Global Search for Education: Just Imagine – Dr. Brian Annan – New Zealand
“We created an image of a teacher and students in a class with digital tools from which they can access families, the community, the environment and the world at large through the internet.” — Brian Annan Just Imagine schools decades from today – what will they be like? Dr. Brian Annan was the program director for the Learning and Change Networks (LCN) strategy from October 2012 to June 2015, an initiative...
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...
The Global Search for Education: More Focus on Systems
“Complex systems are increasingly relevant to our world, as things become more tightly coupled.” — Roland Kupers Roland Kupers wants students to develop the kind of habits conducive to understanding their world in all its complexity. This means understanding how complex systems work and how systems thinkers think about complex problems. Kupers believes it also means developing new teaching approaches. Our world is...
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