AI and Education
How can education address the AI challenge?
Why educators NEED to be life-long learners
I have learned more about teaching by joining the club as a student, than I have from so many of my years teaching.
Guidance for my younger self
Because my family immigrated when I was young, I have felt I missed important mentoring that would have helped me in my academic life. My...
Education and power
Education is about power When I was a child, I remember ‘playing teacher’, replicating what I saw my teachers do, and to me, at that...
Politics, Fear and Education
I recently watched the Amazon ‘Shiny Happy People’ docuseries. The series covers a lot of ground on religion which I will not engage with...
The need to re-think exams
(Alternative paths of education - part 1) We need to rethink why we assess education. Why do we take exams. Quite often, as we are in the...
Dealing with set backs in education - learning from sports!
One of my kids got a slight injury in their sport. The response of the coach was clear: don't stress, take some time off, come back...
Leadership
We have been designing a couple of new courses on leadership. We started with a couple of questions: * What is leadership? * Do we need...
Diversity in our stories
THE POWER OF STORIES (First published in our newsletter) Have you considered the impact reading has on our brain? Research shows our...
Why we don't tell children where the mice are
I was at the museum today with my younger son. As a 'children's activity', the museum had hidden mice in various exhibits and gave out a...
