Agritech: how to explain persistent famine?
the persistence of famine has its origins mainly in unfair policies, a food system held in an iron grip by powerful agribusinesses preoccupied with capitalist interests.
Give learners a taste for effort and quality in the age of AI?
Effort is a way of life that can be taught every day, even in the age of AI, by gamifying learning and developing critical thinking skills...
AI and pedagogical creativity: who takes the initiative?
In the age of artificial intelligence, educational creativity is no longer about producing something new, but about giving new meaning to the act of learning. Faced with machines capable of generating everything, the challenge for education is to preserve human initiative: to teach discernment, slowness, responsibility and the freedom to think differently.
But how did they learn?
At the end of the nineteenth century, hundreds of painters attended prestigious and demanding workshops that provided academic knowledge. It was difficult to enter, they worked hard, and they left with an impressive knowledge. No mistake in drapery, anatomy, perspective, composition. Teachers go in search of 150 year old teaching methods.
The ecological challenge of digital schooling
Digital technology has a heavy environmental cost that is too often ignored. From the earliest age, schools need to raise awareness of the hidden impacts of our digital uses. This is vital if we are to build a more sustainable digital society.