From declining college enrollment to STEAM education’s AI boost, education is experiencing great challenges – and opportunities.
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In this episode of Minds Worth Meeting, Melissa Fries of the Making Waves Foundation reveals how her organization helps K-12 students with college preparedness and post-graduation support.
Inequality negatively impacts communities and employers alike. Although many point to the “skills gap” there is another, better-hidden chasm that limits access to opportunity: a connection gap. After all, 50…
A report by McKinsey indicates that 62 percent of executives believe they will need to either replace or retrain a quarter or more of their staff within the next five…
These 10 speakers help leaders prepare for the impact of AI, automation and the gig economy.
Engineer, roboticist and AI expert Dr. Ayanna Howard grooms the next generation of scientists to tackle big challenges.
Futurist Amy Webb analyzes Republican tax reforms, revealing how they jeopardize the long-term competitiveness of America’s economy and workforce.
Social psychologist Dr. Sherry Turkle has spent her academic career analyzing the effects of technology on human behavior and culture, and has drawn the conclusion that our humanity is jeopardized when digital devices interfere with real human interactions. When Mattel released its newest product “Aristotle” – equipped with a camera and microphone designed to help parents occupy and educate their children – Turkle’s research helped fuel a public outcry that ultimately killed the device before it went to market…
What are we training students to do? In the last millennium, the structure of education has remained constant: students sit in rows listening to a lecturer as they follow along in a book. This factory model, says futurist, award winning author and digital transformation guru Robert Tercek, will be the demise of the workforce if we don’t reinvent the education system to meet the needs of the 21st century society…
When refugees seek asylum, what is the role of the education sector? The number of people displaced by conflict is at the highest level ever recorded; one in every 113 people on the planet is a refugee, asylum seeker or internally displaced. And Alexander Betts, global authority on refugees and human migration, believes higher education institutions around the world are uniquely positioned to help turn crisis into chance…
Take an off-the-record journey with our most recent guest, Julia Freeland Fisher, to hear about what she would tell her five-year-old self, the backstory on why grapefruits play a role…
In this episode, Julia Freeland Fisher, director of education research at the Clayton Christensen Institute, talks to Minds Worth Meeting about the power of disruptive innovation in K-12 and higher…
Conventional wisdom casts online learning as a disruptive force that will revolutionize higher education by lowering costs and expanding access. But a recent survey has found that costs for online learning are no less than, and in some cases more than, costs for traditional instruction. How could this so-called disruptive force have resulted in only an expansion of the status quo?
As instruction methods are constantly updated, it’s difficult to be sure that the proper techniques are being applied. Heather Staker, K-12 education expert, best-selling author and founder of Ready to Blend, has successfully removed the doubt that accompanies changing teaching methods. How? By pinpointing students’ jobs to be done.
In 2017, a plethora of changes are approaching the world of education: a new American presidential administration is bringing new policies to K-12 schools, universities are reconsidering graduates’ need for a four-year degree, and modern technology is increasingly altering the times and places of instruction delivery.
Negotiation is an essential part of everyday life; in business, it’s critical to success. Michael Wheeler just launched a new online negotiation certificate program at Harvard Business School.
In the 21st century, a choice agenda should focus on optimizing instructional choices, not just school choices.
Julia Freeland Fisher, education expert and director of education research at the Clayton Christensen Institute, believes the current direction of education reform rhetoric is misplaced.
Hint: the answer is not “be smart” or “work hard.” Decades of research and reflection have convinced Howard Gardner, a renowned cognitive psychologist, that believing wit and grit equate to…
This spring, backlash against standardized testing will reach a fever pitch as parents across the U.S. pull tens of thousands of children out of exams and make themselves heard at…
The “skills gap” is real and it’s growing. More than 90 percent of U.S. senior executives attest to major areas of weakness, with soft skills and leadership topping their list,…
Schools are approaching the tipping point of a digital transformation that will change the way the world learns. How can we channel the indisputable surge of online learning into a…
