The Global Search for Education: Are You as Good as Your Robot?
Mar13

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

“We should be working harder to figure out how soon large-scale employment disruption will occur and exactly what income policies will be needed when the time comes.” — Elliott/Van Damme 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...

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The Global Search for Education: “Jobsolescence” – Does Charles Fadel Have the Answers?
Jun20

The Global Search for Education: “Jobsolescence” – Does Charles Fadel Have the Answers?

“We need courageous cathedral builders! We also need to address traditional experts’ biases clinging to their narrow domains, parents’ old personal experiences biasing their views, and teachers’ and administrators’ lack of training and leadership, respectively.” — Charles Fadel All around us we are witnessing disruptive automation that is changing lives and taking away the jobs many have relied on to make a living. According to a...

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The Global Search for Education: What Does My Robot Think?
Jun07

The Global Search for Education: What Does My Robot Think?

“Each of those objects is a portrait of who we were as a society, and a promise of who we wanted to be. So who are you now, and who do you want to become, now that you’ve had a look into the mirror of Robots?” — Ling Lee What will robots mean to our future, and more specifically, what will their impact mean for learning and the role of education? Industrial-scale automation is coming soon. But what about other jobs...

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The Global Search for Education: WHAT Knowledge?
Aug24

The Global Search for Education: WHAT Knowledge?

“We are taking the trends identified by futurists and economists, and connecting them to relevant fields of study and competencies required.”  —  Charles Fadel Employers complain that graduates are not ready for work. Students who drop out cite boredom and lack of motivation as their major reasons for leaving school. Stanford University studies indicate students are overloaded and underprepared. WHAT should we teach...

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