What does AI mean for Education?
Machines don’t unionise, don’t get sick, don’t suffer from stress, don’t need a salary and are 100% consistent in delivering a curriculum and testing assimilation. What’s not to like?Read More
Liberia: Education Reimagined
Liberia is outsourcing its public education to a US for-profit corporation in a programme that could determine the future of education in the developing world - interview with the Education Minister
What is Innovation?
Innovation is about notions, unexpected connections, ideas, possibilities and imagination. Seeing new dots and joining them together to create new products and services.Watch
Orwell, Huxley & Venture Philanthropy
George Orwell would have been wise to have listened to his French teacher, Aldous Huxley, who in “Brave New World” described a capitalist dystopia rather than Orwell's communist dystopia.
The purpose of school is dictated by assessment methods. If it was the other way around how would we do things differently in our teaching practices and how would we design our schooling provision?
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My £10 Million MBA
Is the current tech bubble about to burst? Many are predicting a blood bath. This is my story of the rise, crash & burn of a startup & what I learnt when the last tech bubble went pop!
In Monkey Business, filmmaker Shola Lynch chats with economists from across the political spectrum to help explain the causes of economic inequality, with help from a couple of mammalian friends.
Why Basic Income is a inevitable
Renowned speakers including Robert Reich, Erik Brynjolfsson & Yanis Varoufakis, discussed the future of work & unconditional basic income at the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute.
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HundrED : The next 100 years
Finland will be implementing its renewed core curriculum in the autumn of 2016. HundrED encourages every Finnish school to experiment with new ways of learning and teaching.
There’s no such thing as Freewill
For centuries, philosophers and theologians have almost unanimously held that civilization as we know it depends on a widespread belief in free will—and that losing this belief could be calamitous.
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