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Review: The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity by Arthur I. Miller
Review: The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity by Arthur I. Miller
“Arthur Miller is one of the world’s most insightful thinkers about the intersection of art and science.” — Walter Isaac
Rohan Roberts
Apr 29, 2021
The Importance of Existential Intelligence In Organizations
The Importance of Existential Intelligence In Organizations
Big picturing thinking in an exponential age
Tannya Jajal
Nov 8, 2020
The Evolving Role of the Teacher
The Evolving Role of the Teacher
In a world of exponential technologies and disruptive innovations, the role of the educator is changing.
Rohan Roberts
Sep 18, 2020
Radical Openness, Taking Offence & the Role of Education
Radical Openness, Taking Offence & the Role of Education
We live in interesting times. Universities in the U.K. and U.S. which were once bastions of free thought and free expression are now…
Rohan Roberts
Aug 6, 2020
The Future of Learning: Gig Economies, Cultural Capital, and New Learning Pathways
The Future of Learning: Gig Economies, Cultural Capital, and New Learning Pathways
We are currently starting to see credentialing shift away from top-down central authority (e.g. universities) and are simultaneously…
Rohan Roberts
Jul 21, 2020
COVID, Spirituality & A Cosmic Perspective
COVID, Spirituality & A Cosmic Perspective
How zooming out in the middle of a pandemic can help ease our suffering
Tannya Jajal
Jul 7, 2020
Review: The Future is Faster Than You Think
Review: The Future is Faster Than You Think
We’ve seen more change in the last 100 years than in the previous 1000 years. The rate of change isn’t slowing down. Ray Kurzweil —…
Rohan Roberts
Jun 18, 2020
Book Review: “The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems” by Fritjof Capra
Book Review: “The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems” by Fritjof Capra
What the human species faces at this point is primarily a crisis of perception. Many of the global challenges we face arise out of a…
Rohan Roberts
May 19, 2020
Global Edtech Landscape: The Next Generation Learning Lifecycle
Global Edtech Landscape: The Next Generation Learning Lifecycle
We are currently witnessing the advent of the fourth industrial revolution. The World Economic Forum describes this new era as…
Rohan Roberts
Apr 27, 2020
Schools are Closed — Now What?
Schools are Closed — Now What?
(Don’t Despair)
Rohan Roberts
Mar 17, 2020
Measuring Innovation in Education
Measuring Innovation in Education
Earlier this year, the OECD’s Centre for Educational Innovation and Research published their 2019 report, “Measuring Innovation in…
Rohan Roberts
Dec 10, 2019
Anxiety in the Age of Industry 4.0
Anxiety in the Age of Industry 4.0
The situation we find ourselves today in the 21st century is similar in some ways to that of the early 19th century. At that time, it was…
Rohan Roberts
Dec 8, 2019
Captains of Spaceship Earth
Captains of Spaceship Earth
The overview effect is a shift in perception and cognition that astronauts and spacewalkers have described experiencing after viewing…
Rohan Roberts
Dec 7, 2019
Manufacturing Wisdom: Big Data in Education
Manufacturing Wisdom: Big Data in Education
There was a time when 100 megabytes (MB) of data was thought to be mindboggling. Soon after, it was commonplace to have memory sticks that…
Rohan Roberts
Dec 1, 2019
VR , AR, & MR in Education
VR , AR, & MR in Education
Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Mixed Reality are all changing the way we experience reality. To put it simply, VR is an entirely…
Rohan Roberts
Nov 24, 2019
Robotics, Computational Thinking and the Future of Education
Robotics, Computational Thinking and the Future of Education
We used to think only humans could do mathematics. Then we invented the calculator. We used to think only humans could understand natural…
Rohan Roberts
Oct 29, 2019
Transhumanism and Education
Transhumanism and Education
We are constantly evolving socially, culturally, biologically, and technologically. We stand at the threshold of transforming our species…
Rohan Roberts
Aug 18, 2019
An Education Without Exams
An Education Without Exams
Traditional education is built around exams and test scores.
Raya Bidshahri
Jun 15, 2019
Nurture via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes us Human
Nurture via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes us Human
“An unrivalled view of cutting-edge research into the roots of human behaviour.” — Financial Times
Rohan Roberts
Jun 13, 2019
The Teacher as Entertainer
The Teacher as Entertainer
“Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn’t know the first thing about either.” — Marshall McLuhan
Rohan Roberts
Jun 9, 2019
Deschooling Society
Deschooling Society
“Illich’s profound analysis of modern Western societies through the fulcrum of the ‘manipulative institution’ is as significant an…
Rohan Roberts
Jun 9, 2019
100 things we ought to teach in high school — but don’t
100 things we ought to teach in high school — but don’t
A strong case can be made to stop teaching subjects in individual silos (English in the English box, maths in the maths box, science in…
Rohan Roberts
May 23, 2019
Academic Credentialing on the Blockchain
Academic Credentialing on the Blockchain
Current models of academic credentials are based on the outmoded requirements of the Industrial Age. Back in those factory-like work…
Rohan Roberts
Apr 11, 2019
Review — Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark
Review — Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark
5 April 2019 | Rohan Roberts
Rohan Roberts
Apr 5, 2019
Why Corporations Need To Embrace Awe & Big-Picture Thinking
Why Corporations Need To Embrace Awe & Big-Picture Thinking
We live in one of the best times in human history. Today, we’re seeing a surge in exponential technologies that are enabling people and…
Tannya Jajal
Nov 6, 2018
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