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Insights from philosophers about the nature of knowledge and learning can help educators identify why and when using AI in the classroom is warranted and helpful.
Educational philosopher John Dewey saw America’s schools as a place for students from different backgrounds to learn from one another.
We need a richer account of democracy within which to locate the Voice, to lift the quality of public debate about it.
We ought to worry that the pandemic has made it even easier to reduce teaching to disseminating knowledge.
Insights of neuroscientist Ian McGilchrist, philosopher Nel Noddings and physicist Ursula Franklin help centre students and our collective future in debates about education and technology.
The education philosopher Paulo Freire would have denounced the pandemic-fueled proliferation of online schooling as an affront to democracy and a further entitlement for those in positions of power.
Though many in the US are disoriented and disheartened by the lack of an effective federal response to the coronavirus pandemic, American thinker John Dewey would not have been surprised.
The Ancient Greeks modelled a form of education that, in variants, has endured for centuries. But with climate change and globalisation, the world has changed, and the role of education with it.
Should the teacher be a sage on the stage or a guide on the side? Neither, it seems.
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