About five years ago, all schools embraced the idea of global competence. Governments wanted their students to be globally competent; organizations such as the Asia Society led the development of...
http://zhaolearning.com/2024/02/25/what-happened-to-global-competence/
Learning for Uncertainty: Teaching Students How to Thrive in a Rapidly Evolving World By G. Williamson McDiarmid and Yong Zhao Published by Taylor and Francis on Jan 31 2022 Introduction How d...
My latest book Learners without Borders: New Learning Pathways for All Students is published by Corwin in July 2021. Below is Chapter One. It may surprise you to learn that teenagers in Nepal ...
http://zhaolearning.com/2021/07/13/introduction-to-my-new-book-learners-without-borders/
“Better-paid, better-educated workers face the most exposure” to AI, concludes a recent report about the impact of Artificial Intelligence on jobs in the future. This conclusion should mak...
http://zhaolearning.com/2020/01/02/more-and-different-the-impact-of-ai-on-future-jobs-and-education/
Never Send a Human to do a Machine’s Job: Top 5 Mistakes in Ed Tech First published in the Answer Sheet of Washington Post on October 6 2015 A few weeks ago, the OECD released a report that ess...
Originally published in China-US Focus on October 23, 2015. Adapted from my book Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon: Why China has the Best (and Worst) Education System in the World. China’s ...
http://zhaolearning.com/2014/11/01/fooling-the-emperor-how-is-creativity-misapplied-in-china/
Last year when my son graduated from college, I asked the question “can you stay out of my basement?” as I believe an important outcome of education is the ability to live out of one’s pare...
If you are reading this, you know the world didn’t end in 2012. But the world of American education may end in 2014, when the Common Core is scheduled to march into thousands of schools in the ...
http://zhaolearning.com/2013/01/02/five-questions-to-ask-about-the-common-core/
Today’s young people (8 to 18 year olds) spend on average 7 hours and 38 minutes a day with media: watching TV (TV, videos, DVDs, pre-recorded shows), playing video games, listening to music, t...
http://zhaolearning.com/2010/01/25/the-medium-is-the-message-educating-generation-m/
More about the book: 1-10-2010: Lansing State Journal Op Ed: Education “Race” is Counterproductive. 12-17-2009: Panel Discussion about Education in the US on China Radio International, Beijin...