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  1. Apr 2019
    1. 5. Discussion Questions

      I think it would be interesting to add a page or two on how post-human you would like to make your new system of education, how much out of space and time and into the digital you want it, how much a mixture of eastern and western thinkings you want it...?

    2. The curriculum at Brown University allows maximum flexibility in each student’s course of study ("Brown's Grading System").

      I think it could be interesting to bring in the concept of multiversity in your idea of future university and maybe try to bring some other Eastern education view points to encourage your previous argument?

    3. Their failure is celebrated and they become a hero.

      I don't understand that how you would put that in place in Universities. By making students correcting themselves and killing their own ideas? Is it failure? It it others critiquing your project or oneself critiquing theirs?

    4. For English major, a student can submit his or her own novel for evaluation instead of submitting traditional forms of assignments that have no real implications in one's life.

      How would that work in Interdisciplinary studies?

    1. McGill offers degrees and diplomas in over 300 fields of study. But how many courses are 'really' interdisciplinary? (i.e. combining natural science & humanities, Eastern & Western approaches, and humanist & anti-humanist traditions)2. What do you think is the core component of 'interdisciplinary education'? 3. If you were a principal of McGill, how would you change the current education system? (You don't necessarily have to change, if you think status quo is okay.)

      I think these questions could be asked at the beginning to see what the person thinks before going through your project, and how they think about it afterwards, leaving them a way to interact with the questions?

    1. University of Waterloo offers North America's largest co-op program. The co-op process academic terms with work terms creating study/work sequences. More than 60% of undergraduate students are enrolled in the co-op program and over 7,000 employers are actively hiring from the university ("Our Programs

      I didn't really understand this part. Is it about alternating working and studying?

    2. Transition Year is an optional one-year school programme that can be taken in the year after the Junior year in the Irish high school. Irish high school students can spend one year as transition year before they become senior students and the year focuses on many non-academic subjects including first aid, cooking, self-defense, driving, entrepreneurship and travelling other countries.

      I really like this concept, because I think we arrive to college not mature enough to handle everything at first.

    1. Learning new languages is very important in the age of globalization. Imagine a module where for an hour each day, the children spend their time walking around Italy in a VR world, hanging out with AI-driven game characters who teach them, engage them, and share the culture and the language in the most personalized and compelling fashion possible.

      Super cool idea! Would you consider coding a language class in your curriculum, of interacting with technology?

    2. The experience of creating a product or service and successfully selling it will create an indelible memory and give students the tools to change the world.

      Isn't the world already about selling and making consumer goods already the basis of our society? How will it help to change the world?

    3. In my opinion, we need to be teaching sales to every child at an early age. Being able to “sell” an idea (again related to storytelling) has been a critical skill to every academic discipline.

      Interesting idea, but what do you think pf encouraging children to sell what they create rather than exchanging or simply sharing ideas?

    1. Giving them an overview of exponential technologies such as computation, sensors, networks, 3D printer, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and robotics, to name a few.

      However, usually these cost a lot of money and there is already a problem of accessibility of education? Won't that worsen it?

    1. Here, we talked about it.

      Cool way to link back to your other part. You thought about it and that's why I think it could be interesting to approach your project display through a less linear way, through visual paths maybe or other versions of the layout in order to be able to make other choices on which way we are going? Maybe divide it as your main parts and give hyperlinks like this so the person can read the argument that serves the one you are making like here.

    1. The one-teacher-fits-all model comes from an era of scarcity where great teachers and schools were rare.

      Very interesting point. But how is it changed by the AI? Isn't it replacing one-teacher-fits-all model by one-AI-fits-all model? Even if it is distributed on a one on one basis, would the AI adapt to each student? If yes, how is that imaginable?

    1. Virtual reality is no longer part of some distant future, and it's not just for gaming and entertainment anymore. Michael Bodekaer wants to use it to make quality ...

      Again, way less long than the other ones but I think it could be interesting to annotate the some parts of the video.

    1. Examples

      I think it could be interesting to challenge some of your own examples with the accessibility that are given to them. Some people don't have their own computers or their own VR medium, how do you define space if your school is still inside something. I think one interesting point of the multiversity is also outside of the digital frame and more in connection with the city so that people could access to knowledge everywhere. It is indeed complicated to find a way to not link knowledge to a place whether it is digital or not because our resources to access to data are still grounded into space and time

    1. Frederick Travis, PhD, director of the Center for Brain, Consciousness and Cognition, explains that the concept "We create our reality" is more than a ...

      These are two very very very long videos. I think it could be interesting to annotate some parts of them so that the reader of your project can get what you want them to get out of it to further understand your point?

    1. Zoroastrianism-Judaism-Christianity-Islam-Marxism

      For me it is very complicated to separate streams of thought and cultures geographically. Because for example, in the Americas, some Indigenous peoples had more genders than one, and I don't know where you would put them on your geographical map. I think this needs to be nuanced?

    2. Middle East (Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan) is where East and West meet and diverge.

      I think it is an interesting idea, I have never considered the Middle East as being very Western. What about Africa?

    1. YouTube chief executive Susan Wojcicki majored in history and literature  • Slack founder Stewart Butterfield majored in English  • Airbnb founder Brian Chesky majored in the fine arts.   • Alibaba chief executive Jack Ma has a bachelor’s in English.

      It is really interesting and encouraging I think to know that such fields open up to people that study arts and the humanities. However it could be interesting to talk about digital humanities within schools/colleges too here?

    1. 1. Prologue2. Interdisciplinary Education3. Digital Education4. Curriculum for the Future5. Discussion Questions

      I think it is a really interesting way to go through the question of the Future of Education. However it is maybe very linear and I thought it could be interesting to maybe have a more "zigzagging" way of navigating the project, even though I think it is really well constructed and deconstructing it might be counterproductive. Moreover about the Discussion Questions? Are you planning on having people interact with them and be able to answer them?

    1. We can embrace different disciplines for environmental studies: history, sociology, feminism, vitalist materialism (zoe-egalitarianism), the Eastern holistic approach to environment, etc.

      I think it is really interesting.

    1. Interdisciplinary Studies

      I think it could be interesting to add that Interdisciplinary Studies are a very old concept, for example with the Liberal Arts Trivium and Quadrivium that have changed now, and I think it could be interesting to differentiate different kind of Interdisciplinary Studies (the humanist one, the anti-humanist one and the post-humanist perhaps?) Because according to me it is complicating to say that Interdisciplinary Studies as a whole can be a solution to Humanist's definition of the human, as they were an inherent part of Humanism?