Countries across the world (and international agencies that should know better) are calling for the outlawing of smartphones from schools. In this UKFIET Blog, Mike Douse explains how, in the Digital Age, this is the very opposite of what should be happening.
Numerous dignitaries, academics and salespeople (but thus far no robots) are flocking to copious conferences, sundry seminars and voluminous workshops focussed on Education and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Schools give specific support to children with speech difficulties and they pay particular attention to students who will enter public speaking and debating contests, thereby bringing glory to their institutions. But, for the vast majority in the middle, spoken communication is not on the curriculum and, across the world, the…
Growing numbers of universities worldwide are offering programmes in Artificial Intelligence. In this UKFIET Blog, Mike Douse describes a very different kind of higher educational institution: one that is based upon and applies AI in all of its actions.
This UKFIET Blog is contributed by Mike Douse who accepts that scanning the far horizon sensibly can be a valuable means of keeping immediate challenges in perspective, yet calls upon teachers, learners and planners to be healthily sceptical about all mega-philosophies, and believes that education, as currently evolving, will be…
This article, based on a recent conference presentation, is contributed by Mike Douse, who explores how education’s forthcoming fundamental transformation will result in far fewer teachers worldwide, with each of them facilitating learning much more effectively, and all deserving and hopefully receiving substantially greater remuneration and intangible rewards than in…
In a West African university in the early-1960s, unthinkingly and unashamedly I presented my students with the information and ideas that I had absorbed during my postgraduate studies in the UK.
This article is contributed by Mike Douse independent International Education/TVET Adviser, who argues that education’s unimaginative and over-cautious responses to COVID-19 worldwide have...