Working at 11 years old
Since the HIV pandemic, child labor has increased for the first time in 20 years in the world. This situation can be explained by the precariousness caused by the health crisis. While Africa has suffered the most, Quebec is seeing more and more young people between the ages of 11 and 15 taking jobs in sectors with a shortage of personnel. A situation that raises some concerns.
Is the general culture in school in danger?
Schools try as much as possible to transmit knowledge that must be transmitted, according to ministerial guidelines. But what about knowledge that is less crucial but cultivates young people? A decline in general knowledge in the educational system causes disparities between learners. Do we need more general culture?
Disruptive innovations thanks to the C-K method
Airships capable of carrying heavy loads, a plane that flies around the world without refueling, a drone designed for the home market, or a segway that allows a person to move vertically on two wheels... These products illustrate the C-K method, designed to encourage the emergence of breakthrough innovations.
The possible utopia: a city without cars
Most utopias are difficult to achieve. However, there is one that can be implemented: to withdraw cars from cities little by little. All mathematical models show that it is possible to continue to develop the city around the automobile. Thus, many cities in the world are starting to push them back. Policies facilitated by the confines of the covid-19.
Criteria to Qualify Training as Innovative
These criteria to try to define what might be innovative in training. Many innovations are not adopted, many so-called innovations only respond to criteria alien to the function. So what are the real pedagogical innovations?