This book was recommended to me through my ISEEN Professional Affinity Group: Leading through Change, and I am so thankful for this recommendation. This is a difficult and challenging book to read ~ in fact, the author spends a few dozen pages trying to talk the reader out of reading the book in its entirety….
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I want to capture the great conversation between these two books, so I’ll try something new. As I read / listened to these two amazing thinkers and futurists contemplate the state of our world, its past and future, I couldn’t help but see how they references one another’s thinking, and played with the ideas in…
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This book caught my eye from the cover design, and seeing that the forward was by Simon Sinek. This is very readable, and accessible, through Hadeed’s storytelling, and synthesis of leadership lessons that have made her the successful entrepreneur and business mind that she is today. Published in 2017, this book is more relevant…
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Full disclosure, that Dr. Belle Liang and Tim Klein are working in a year-long consulting role at our school, and that is why I picked up this book – and I am so glad that I did. Not only am I excited about the work that we will be doing with them this coming academic…
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Thanks to Rosemary Evans, former Principal of University of Toronto Schools for recommending this book to me by UTS Alum’ Asheesh Advani. I really enjoyed this book as an educator who works with highly motivated students and student leaders, and I can imagine this book being of great value to those students; though, don’t get…
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As alien as AIs are, they’re also deeply human. They are training on our cultural history, and reinforcement learning from humans aligns them to our goals. They carry our biases and are created out of a complex mix of idealism, entrepreneurial spirit, and yes, exploitation of the work and labor of others. In many ways,…
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I had the privilege of listening to Elin Kelsey speak at the Global Education Benchmarking Group (GEBG) this past April. I had come across the book earlier and it had intrigued me as a great provocation for a course we were designing at Havergal College. But when I heard her speak, I knew I was…
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“”I no longer accept anything that is not perfectly written at this stage. Why Bother?” Like Mollock, Fuentes and Hick, Educators are finding that these Generative AI tools make our students far more skilled and efficient writers. They are also finding that, where producing essays were once seen as essential to helping students gain mastery…
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I have been deep-diving into Stoicism these past two years through the books and podcast of Ryan Halliday (aka: The Daily Stoic). When I was introduced to Danny Bauer, one of the authors of “Calm in the Chaos”, it was clear that he was a learning-practitioner of Stoicism in the educational context and culture. Chief…
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How might we understand the confluence of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI), Synthetic Biology, and conceive of a habitable future, with ethical considerations of what it means to be human – this books sets out to answer this ambitious question. The coming wave is defined by two core technologies: GAI and synthetic biology. Together they will…
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