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The Fourth Industrial Revolution is the age of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Because these technologies will continue to have a huge impact on our lifestyles and livelihoods, it is vital that we prepare our learners for this uncertain future. Here are workshops we have done and materials we have written relating to preparing for the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Our education system has to take some responsibility for the quality of the current political discourse in South Africa, in which there is a lack of willingness to engage the disagreement of others in a productive dialogue. Instead of collaborating to solve development challenges that are critical to the health…
Continue readingImagine 150 Grade 8 & 9 learners in a hall playing a game they don’t know the rules to. They have to work together in teams to figure out the hidden rules of the game and then try to win it. There is minimal instruction. Learners have to do something,…
Continue readingIt turns out that a country does not have to be wealthy to make significant progress in preparing its children for the future. What it does need to do, according to the Worldwide Educating For the Future Index (WEFFI) report, is shift its focus beyond measuring the memorisation of specific…
Continue readingIn 2018 we had the great pleasure of working with the dynamic Delia Kench and the staff of St Benedict’s on a three-day workshop that aimed at encouraging learners to think deeply, plan strategically and explore the skills associated with design – engaging some of the transferable skills valued in…
Continue readingThe speed at which technology is now changing, and as a result the speed at which our knowledge of reality is changing, has never been this fast. It is impossible to know exactly how machine learning will impact on the way we live, learn, work and play. Will it erode…
Continue readingRote memory is a skill in which computers far outperform any human. In the 21st century we cannot treat our learners as passive receptacles of knowledge, but we must treat them as independent knowledge producers, willing to try, fail and learn.
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