The State of Education and The Challenges Ahead.The bad news about the education system is that it is highly standardised and oppressive. The good news is that we have the ability to combat the inertia Read More
Education and Democracy Part 1
From Trump to climate change, our children must be prepared for the huge challenges of this century. So why are we still preparing them for a nineteenth-century industrial culture which doesn’t exist?Read More
Education and Democracy Part 2
The Uberfication of Teaching. Our schools are addicted to the tyranny of measurement, underpinned by a multi-billion dollar business. .Read More
John Dewey, Democracy & Education
Dewey argues that the primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group determine the necessity of education.Read More
Is School Making Our Children Sick?
Rates of depression & anxiety among teenagers in the UK have increased by 70 per cent. How has society managed to produce a generation of teenagers in which mental-health problems are so prevalent? Read More
The EdTech Rebel Alliance - Update
Since posting the original article a huge number of enquiries were received from individuals and organisations who are keen to help establish and be part of an “EdTech Rebel Alliance”.Read More
Liberal Arts is the Future
Billionaire Mark Cuban "I personally think there's going to be a greater demand in 10 years for liberal arts majors than there were for programming majors and maybe even engineering"
We love the idea of the innovative entrepreneur. We love the story about code being written in dorm rooms, naysayers saying, “It can’t be done!” The overcoming of the obstacles. The “I’ll-show-you’s!” being shown. But it’s not real.Read More
The Future of Work - Automation
What to do about mass unemployment? This is going to be a massive social challenge. There will be fewer and fewer jobs that a robot cannot do better [than a human].Read More
The Rise of the Logan’s Run economy
What we lose when we choose youth over wisdom in the workplace. Over the last couple decades, in many industries, we’ve come to see age and experience not as sources of wisdom, but as liabilities. Read More
Singapore Wants More Than Grades
The purpose of the education system has changed and Singapore in 2017 is no longer the fledgling state it was in 1965. Schools have been encouraged to scrap standardised examinations and focus on the development of the whole child. Read More
GESS 2017 - Dubai
Graham Brown-Martin will be presenting a keynote talk about the Future of Learning at GESS 2017 and Global Education Forum in Dubai on March 14th 2017
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