In the age of robots, our schools are teaching children to be redundant

In the future, if you want a job, you must be as unlike a machine as possible: creative, critical and socially skilled. So why are children being taught to behave like machines?

First Virtual Reality Calculator

Calcflow is a virtual reality application that lets you explore mathematical theorems and scenarios in an interactive virtual reality environment.

Learning From the Outside In With an ECO Education

Humans are a part of nature in every moment, in every place, and recognizing this puts a different lens on how you interact with the world’s ecological and social communities.

No Job Is Safe, But These Skills Will Always Be Valued in the Workplace

In a world where these labor cycles are accelerating, the question is: What skills do we teach the next generation so they can keep pace?

Why the Latest AI Wave Will Gain Momentum in the Coming Year

Artificial intelligence is splashed across headlines like never before. The AI revolution is here, and the most obvious question to ask as 2016 draws to an end is: what’s next?

EXCLUSIVE: Interview with UAE's Minister of Tolerance

UAE Minister of Tolerance H.E. Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi says everyone including diplomats, clergymen and ministers have been consulted with to set up a program to promote tolerance.

Augmented reality advances learning especially in informal science education context

The results showed that AR-technology experience was beneficial especially for the pupils, who otherwise belong to the lowest achieving school success group.

Overhauling How We Teach Our Kids in a World of Accelerating Change

Five issues with today’s elementary schools, five guiding principles for future education and exponential technologies for our classrooms.

How AI will shape the average North American city by 2030

Every five years a panel of experts will assess the current state of AI and its future directions. Here’s how they think it will affect eight key domains of city life in the next fifteen years.

New professor studies energy in the emerging interdisciplinary field of sustainability science

Jennie Stephens focuses on under­standing how the social dynamics—including polit­ical power, insti­tu­tional norms, and gender— influ­ence deploy­ment of wind power, solar, and smart grids.

Greek teachers learn ABCs of particle physics at CERN

CERN’s CMS Experiment has organized a new pilot training program, titled “Playing with Protons,” which allows teachers to get acquainted with the basics of particle physics and subsequently transfer their experiences and knowledge to their pupils.

The Future Of Education: We Live In A Social World

HundrED is a global, non-profit project aiming to bring together a vision of education for the next 100 years, collecting 100 innovations from Finland and a further 100 from around the world, along with commentary from global thought leaders.

How German schools teach climate change, sustainable transport

Students in Berlin and Hamburg learn everything from urban gardening to safely using public transportation on their own

MIT announces Campaign for a Better World

Comprehensive fundraising initiative aims to raise $5 billion to advance Institute's work on some of the world's biggest challenges.

New test for 'growth mindset', the theory that anyone who tries can succeed

Researchers are going to examine the theory from American psychology that has taken UK schools by storm. “Growth mindset” is the name given by psychologist Carol Dweck to the idea that intelligence can develop, and that effort leads to success.