Back with another special episode on the status of the AI in education, cutting through the hype (again) with the fantastic Charles Fadel. This is quite a deep dive into the topic, so if you’re early exploring this topic, check out episodes 107 and 108 with a great selection of reflections on AI in education from young people, teachers, leaders, policy-makers and edtech entrepreneurs. 

Charles is a global education thought leader and futurist, author, and inventor, with several active affiliations. His work spans the education continuum of K-12 schools, higher education, and workforce development/lifelong learning. He is the Founder and chairman of the Center for Curriculum Redesign and among many other accolades, he is the author of Education for the Age of AI, with co-authors Alexis Black, Robbie Taylor, Janet Slesinski and Katie Dunn.

Center for Curriculum Redesign (CCR): https://curriculumredesign.org/

Four-Dimensional (4D) Competencies Framework: https://curriculumredesign.org/frameworks/competencies-framework/ 

Tools: https://curriculumredesign.org/tools/ 

Charles is also:

Chair of the Education Committee of the Business and Industry Advisory Committee (BIAC) to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), nominated by the U.S. Council for International Business (USCIB). He works with several teams at the OECD, most notably Education 2030, PISA, CERI, and the Expert Group on AI Futures.

Senior Fellow, Human Capital at The Conference Board

Board member at the United States Council Foundation (USCF).

Global Education Lead at Cisco Systems for over a decade.

Founder of Neurodyne, an ahead-of-its-time startup focused on Neural Networks/Artificial Intelligence.

Member of the President’s Council of the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering.

Founder and President of the Fondation Helvetica Educatio in Geneva, Switzerland. Fondation Helvetica Educatio focused on global education matters.

Product marketing and management in semiconductors for broadband and wireless applications at Analog Devices and M/A-COM.

Visiting practitioner at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education in the Mind, Brain and Education program. He explored curriculum redesign issues in an age of artificial intelligence and taught the first-ever class on “Human Learning + Machine Learning.”

Former Project Director at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education in the Laboratory for the Science of the Individual. There he explored “Machine Learning + Human Learning.”

Visiting lecturer at MIT’s Experimental Study Group (ESG). He taught an innovative “special topics in mathematics” seminar, “Polymathy: The World in 10 Curves.” He then taught the seminar at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education for six years to student acclaim.

Visiting lecturer at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in the Chief Learning Officer Program.

Senior Fellow at the Partnership for 21st Century Skills.

Previous books Artificial Intelligence in Education (2018) was translated into Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Arabic. His earlier, highly influential book Four-Dimensional Education (2015) was translated into ten languages, while its framework was translated into twenty-three languages. He co-authored best-selling 21st Century Skills (2009, Wiley).