On January 14, a research report on AI uses in schools was released by Brookings, This report, entitled A new direction for students in an AI world: Prosper, prepare, protect, focused on Gen AI and students learning and development. It has an interesting conclusion:...
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Episode 262 | What Can We Learn about Education: Lessons from Over a Decade of Video Interviews with Education Thought Leaders
If you want to know what some of the best education thinkers think about the state of education, educational changes, effective teaching and learning, equity and excellence, new technologies etc., one of the places is The Brainwaves Video Anthology on YouTube created...
Episode 245 | What’s Worth Learning in the Age of AI: Reflections about a Summer Camp in Beijing
There is widespread concern about student cheating in schools, but why do we want students to do things that AI can do? If we free students from learning traditionally prescribed content, what else can they learn and how can learning happen? In a week-long summer camp...
Episode 181: What Can They Do When Empowered: Student and Teacher Voice from South Australia
We have been following initiatives that empower students to go beyond their traditional schools and classrooms, beyond their traditional pedagogies, and their traditional learning partners. We featured an initiative of Digital Promise that involved students in the...
Episode 179 | Innovation, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship Education: Experiences of Chinese Students in Beijing and Chongqing
Transforming education is never easy but transformation is necessary. How to personalize education for every student? How to engage students in identifying and solving problems worth solving? How to connect students across school and cultural boundaries so they can...
Episode 177 | The Power of Students: Voice and Research by Students
We have come to a time that students have been gradually recognized and accepted as purposeful, intentional, active, and capable individuals rather than simple recipients of instruction. Increasingly more schools and organizations have developed programs that advocate...
Episode 171: Educational Transformation through “School within a School:” Invitation instead of Imposition
Educational transformation is very difficult, if not impossible, to achieve because of the diversity of views on how schools should operate. Typically, when changes are about to happen, they are intended to apply to every student and teacher in the school. In other...
Episode 168 | A Parent’s Journey to Create a Global “School:” The Hub
This episode will air on Saturday 9/30/2023 at Noon Eastern Discontent with traditional one-size-fits-all education and the COVID-19 pandemic have stimulated a variety of innovate efforts to create new educational possibilities. Among them is the Hub created by Luba...
Episode 161 | Human Restoration Project: Reimagining Education with Future Forward Thinking
Human Restoration Project: Reimagining Education with Future Forward Thinking As activist and author adrienne maree brown urges us, to “...fight for the future, get into the game, get dirty, get experimental…” – we need reimagined schools and public education now more...
Episode 119 | Views from Global Top Performers on the Future of Education
This episode will air on August 27, at 8:30 AM Eastern What is the future of education? What should it be? What can it be? How are policy makers in top PISA performing education systems thinking about the future of education? That is the focus of this episode of...









