Conrad Hughes is Head of School at the International School of Los Angeles. He is also Professor in Practice at the University of Durham's School of Education, Senior Fellow at UNESCO's International Bureau of Education, and a member of the University of the People's Education Advisory Board. He has published four major books and several peer-reviewed articles on education and technology, prejudice reduction, global citizenship education and how to broaden assessment.
Through the 1990s and 2000s a technological tidal wave swept over classrooms, culminating today in the emergence of AI as a major disruptor of the education space. Now, opinions about wha...
如果你问今天的教育者，我们应着重培养年轻人哪些技能，他们几乎众口一词：批判性思维。然而，细想之下便会发现，真正将批判性思维的内涵讲清楚的人却寥寥无几。它已然成为一个包罗万象的热词，成为回应人工智能时代挑战的标准说辞。但是它到底意味着什么？
If you ask educators today what skills we should be developing in young people, they will more or less all say critical thinking. However, you might have noticed that few actually flesh o...
Como educador, con frecuencia me piden que haga predicciones sobre el futuro del sector, especialmente ahora que fuerzas tan poderosas como la inteligencia artificial están transformando ...
As an educator, I’m frequently asked to predict the future of the sector, especially now, with seismic forces like artificial intelligence fundamentally transforming work and society. All...
Generative artificial intelligence (AI), embodied in programmes like ChatGPT and Google’s Bard, is a major force that sectors from manufacturing to healthcare must respond to — but the se...
COVID has left a lasting impact on education in a number of ways. Deficits in learning may never be fully redressed; backlogs, delays and more complexity in university admission will cont...
It's a simple question: what makes a great teacher?
You might have come across this thought experiment: if I throw one ball at you, you catch it and if I throw two balls at you at the same time, you will have just enough time and skill to ...
When school students graduate, they must provide relevant evidence of proficiency in selected academic areas to be eligible for university or work.
Reports of substantial drops in research funding and precipitous falls in international student enrolments are reaping havoc in the higher-education industry. Most universities are focuss...
Educational reform tends to be a delayed process, and the catalyst is more often than not new technologies.
You may have heard the idea that the Chinese word for crisis means “danger” also means “opportunity”. It is a compelling thought, but it is not true: the word for crisis in Chinese transl...
