Future of Learning
Skip Coding, Teach Data Science
While there is high demand for coding skills today, artificial intelligence will increasingly take over routine coding jobs as it grows in sophistication. The longer term and larger employment and impact opportunities for today's students lie in data science.
Work Worth Doing
As waves of novelty and complexity draw nearer, what should young people know and be able to do to be successful? The fundamental changes underway suggest these eight next steps to help young people shape work worth doing.
Key To Prep: The Science of Teams
As managing projects and working in teams becomes a priority learning outcome in schools, it's important to understand several important group dynamics that can ensure a team is successful.
Making The Case for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
A new publication released by NewSchools Venture Fund and several other prominent education funders shares the most comprehensive study on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the education sector ever completed.
Getting Smart Podcast | Learning Anywhere, Anytime: Things Are About to Get Interesting
In this episode of the podcast, Katie King of KnowledgeWorks interviews Tom Vander Ark about EdReform, EdTech, EdLeaders and what learning will look like a decade from now.
Parent-Teacher Communication in a Multilingual School District
By: Dr. Melanie Morgan. With the growth of ELL students in the classroom on a steady rise, today’s teachers need to be prepared to communicate with ELL students and their parents. Here are a few options I've found helpful in my own classroom.
Personalized Learning is a Transformative Idea Without a Transformative Technology
By: Neerav Kingsland. Without a technological breakthrough, the current personalized learning efforts will (at best) lead to modest improvements in the execution of common place ideas.
5 Emerging Trends in 21st-Century Education
By: Scott Freiberger. New technologies have been a boon for school leaders and educators seeking to collaborate and hone their skills. Here's what's next.
Smart Review | Learning Transformed: 8 Keys to Designing Tomorrow’s Schools, Today
By: Eric Nentrup. The authors of this book are sounding the alert for the specific types of change that need to occur, and backing it up with research, numbers and influence. Read more here.
Massive Global Benefit. Waves of Dislocation and Challenge. Time to #AskAboutAI.
To kick-off our #AskAboutAI series, we invited Bay Area technologists, social scientists, philanthropists and educators to discuss three specific questions around the implications of AI.