Newsletter 47: Education 3.0 - "Act now, the world of education is ready for a change." Russell John Cailey

Find time to watch this TEDx talk by Russell John Cailey and use it motivate yourself. Russell ask gives three pieces of advice, which do resonate with Colegio Ikigai and the personal learning journey we have undertaken in Mexico City.

Here's are the nuggets of wisdom. Spoiler alert if you are going to watch the talk.

Lesson 1 - Russell John Cailey: "As a leader and teacher, I had to 'deschool' myself."

Lesson 2 - "When given freedom and trust, learners seldom disappoint."

Lesson 3 - "Act now; the world of education is ready for a change."

I hope all educators around the globe can feel that it is time for change in education, in which we must make this system more equitable for all learners. For me, that means changing the evaluation system of education to a system based on student agency, Project-Based Learning, and embracing the technology that will transform society.

Or, as I like to call this idea, Education 3.0.

Why must we do this? If we are to face the world's largest problems, we need all eight billion of us educated to a high standard, empowered to solve problems, take risks, make mistakes, learn from doing. We need to learn how to recreate the human race without the conflict, racism, and rampant capitalism that promises to see us to our collective grave and this must happen by next Tuesday. Time is no longer on our side and we need to act in the best interests of our children and the chidlren in our schools, by questioning how we did education when we were at school.

Drink in this talk and then ask yourself, what is your first chess move to transform the world of education?

The personal learning journey for teachers must not stop on your first day of classes, it need to begin at this point.

"Don't tell me what to think, teach me how to think." Could AI transform education for the better, let's hope, here the economist is happy to wade in on the debate.

On the topic of AI, the subject of AI and standarized testing coexisting in the same space came up this week.

'Coming for Standardized Testing' may seem very ominous, but the head of PISA, Mr. Schleicher, makes a lot of sense in this part of the report:

“I think one of the greatest mistakes that we have made in the history of education is to divorce learning from assessment,” Schleicher told the chiefs. “We have young kids pile up years and years and years and years of learning. And then one day we call them back and say, ‘Tell me everything you know’ in this contrived setting. And that has been superficial, that has made teaching superficial.”

Here to brighten that thought are the teachers of Futuremind, explaining how they plan to make teaching meaningful, real and authenic with AI." Trudi Barrow

There are some excellent ideas here. Philip Murdoch ??

Making teaching meaningful and real must be a central theme in education and here is Ethan Mollocks take the future of education, considering his stance on AI.

"AI is going to impact how we work and learn."

It has already impacted how we work and learn. Here is the link to the full piece in Time magazine,

WOW Signal. Now I know I am living in the future. Talk about finding your Ikigai; this takes a very special blend of talents and bravery.

I don't remember this being on the menu at Ashton Sixth Form College, although I might have missed it, to be fair. I think I would have had an interest in the Jet Suit Race Series at age 16.

And 43...

Nearly 44.

Let's get inspired, let's change things around, let's think differently about schools. It's easy when you try, as there is a lot that must be improved.

Let's change those 'shoulds' to 'musts' this year.

Even if that must is, try Jet Suit racing at least once in my life.