Conferences
The following conferences, symposia, and seminars were led, sponsored, and/or supported by CCR.
- 21st Century Education – What Should Students Learn in the 21st Century? Plenary
- 21st Century Mathematics Conferences (2)
- Artificial Intelligence in Education: Promises & Implications
- Augmented/Amplified Humans Colloquium
- Character Education for a Challenging Century Conference
- Colloquium on Neuroscience in Education
- Economists’ Colloquia (3)
- Futurists & Educators Meetings (2)
- Interdisciplinarity & Metacognition Colloquium
- International Symposium on Employability and the Learner Profile
- Methodology to Assess Workforce Readiness Meeting
Artificial Intelligence in Education: Promises & Implications
Technologies such as artificial intelligence, robotics, big data, biotech, and nanotechnology are redefining what it means to be human and succeed in life and work. The world of the 21st century bears little resemblance to that of the 19th century, so education curricula must be deeply redesigned for versatility and adaptability, including Knowledge, Skills, Character, and Meta-Learning, and the interplay between them. In an age of AI, what should students learn?
Geneva, March 2020
International Symposium on Employability and the Learner Profile (ISELP)
School curricula are increasingly misaligned with the needs of life and employability. What are the drivers that hold this misalignment frozen in place and what are the possibilities for change?
Paris, October 2019
- Accreditation: Higher Leverage? Or Hindrance as Gatekeepers for Education Quality & For Learners’ Employability & Life Journey – Tala Khudari
- Changing the Assessment to Change the Behaviour and Focusing on Qualification – Yuri Belfali
- Changing the Assessment to Change the Behaviour – Andrea Gray
- Employability in the Age of AI – Charles Fadel
- Finding Alternatives to the ALTA (Australian Tertiary Admission Rank) – Sarah Maddison
- Global Comparisons of University Entrance Systems and Views from Leading-edge Employers – Riikka Heikinheimo
- Global Comparisons of University Entrance Systems – Dirk Van Damme
- Mastery Transcript Consortium – Stacy Caldwell
- The Talent Imperative: Rapid Transformations Make Reskilling of Talent an Imperative – Khurram Jamil
21st Century Mathematics Conferences
What should students learn in the 21st Century? Specifically, what changes are needed to math curricula – both what topics and branches should be added and what should be removed?
Stockholm, April 2013 and Geneva, May 2018
Conference 1
- Introduction – Charles Fadel
- A Few Remarks on the Policy Relevance from an OECD Perspective – Dirk Van Damme
- Computational Thinking – Maggie Johnson
- Does the Learning of Mathematics Build Higher-Order Thinking Skills? Evidence from Neuroscience and Psychology – Jon Star
- Exponential Technologies’ Impact on Humankind – Charles Fadel
- Many Eyes – Irene Greif
- Mathematics and 21st Century Skills: Creativity, Critical Thinking, Communication, Collaboration, & Democracy – Michael Pearson
- Mathematics and the Drift Towards Purity – Sverker Lundin
- Mathematics Education for a Flat World: What Should our Children Learn for Life in the Twenty-first Century? – Keith Devlin
- Mathematics Standards of PISA Countries – William Schmidt
- PISA’s View on Mathematics – Dirk Van Damme
- Street-fighting Mathematics for Everyone – Sanjoy Mahajan
- The History of Mathematics Teaching: The Tension Between Practice and Theory – Victor Katz and Joseph Dauben
- Theory vs Practice in the Teaching of Mathematics – Victor Katz and Joseph Dauben
- What Mathematics Do People Really Use in the Workplace? – Merrilea Mayo
- Why do we teach Mathematics? – Charles Fadel
- Why Should We Fix This Urgently? – Åke Svensson
- Workplace Mathematics and Lessons for Curriculum Redesign – Arthur Bakker
- Teaching Complex Dynamical Systems at Ross Schools (video (11:25))
- Conference Declaration: Stockholm Declaration: Mathematics for the 21st Century
Conference 2
- Algorithms Do Change the World! (video (32:18)) – John MacCormick
- Fixing Maths Education for the 21st Century (video (35:41)) – Conrad Wolfram
- How Poland Moved Ahead (video (27:51)) – Zbigniew Marciniak
- Implementing the Proposed Mathematics Framework: Recommendations for PISA (video (19:51)) – Peggy Carr
- Mathematics and the Brain (video (36:29)) – Stanislas Dehaene
- Mathematics for the 21st Century (video (25:08)) – Charles Fadel
- The Mathematics People Really Need (video (28:18)) – Keith Devlin
Augmented/Amplified Humans Colloquium
The colloquium explored the coming impact of Biotechnology, especially in relationship to CCR’s seminal question, “WHAT should students learn for the 21st century?”
Cambridge, MA, September 2016
- Introduction – Charles Fadel
- Evolving Ourselves – Adapting to Our Unnatural World – Steve Gullans
Character Education for a Challenging Century Conference (CECCC)
Geneva, October 2014
- Assessing Character: Measuring Noncognitive Factors that Matter for School Performance – Shanette Porter
- Awakening Student Curiosity – Conrad Hughes
- Character Education Framework for the 21st Century – Charles Fadel
- Developing Courage – Bernard Harris
- Educating for Character – Linda Darling-Hammond
- Education, “Bildung,” and Mindfulness – Han de Wit
- Exponential Technologies and their Impact on Humankind – Charles Fadel
- Human Capital for Growth and Social Progress – Andreas Schleicher
- Human Enhancements: Redefining what it Means to be Human – Richard Sandford
- Intellectual Virtues: What They Are and Why We Need Them – Barry Schwartz
- Leadership for Humanity’s Best Instincts – Carsten Sudhoff
- Learning Social and Emotional Skills for Social Progress – Dirk Van Damme
- Moral and Social Development Priorities in Child-raising – Richard Weissbourd
- The Importance of Mindset – Eduardo Briceño
- Exponential Technologies and their Impact on Humankind – Charles Fadel
- Conference Declaration: Geneva Declaration
Economists’ Colloquia
Humanity is facing severe difficulties at societal, economic, and personal levels. What advice do economists have for educators on how to get ahead of – and not merely catch up to – the disruptions? How do we build “economic resilience”?
The Roundtable on Education and Human Capital Requirements
New York City, February 2012
- Setting the Stage
- Inventing New Measures of Value Creation: Use the Future to Rethink the Present – Riel Miller
- Roundtable on Education and Human Capital Requirements – Daniel Trefler
- STEM – Nicole Smith
- The Impact of Automation on the Demand for Skills – and Potential Education Systems Responses – David Autor
- The Transformative Power of Technology – Bernard Meyerson
- Roundtable Summary
- Roundtable Video (5:59)
Man and Machine: The Impact of Technology on Employment Colloquium
New York City, February 2013
- Education and U. S. Economic Growth – Robert Gordon
- Exponential Technology Disruption on Jobs – Rob Nail
- Human Skills in the Computerized Workplace – Frank Levy
- Man and Machine: Comments – Gad Levanon
- Man and Machine: The Impact of Technology – Charles Fadel
- Technology Anxiety Past and Present – David Autor
- The Great Reversal in the Demand for Skills and Cognitive Tasks – Paul Beaudry
- Understanding Structural Change by Deconstructing Value Chains Over Time – Stephen Rose
- Summary
Hype vs. Reality: A.I./Robotics and Impact on Employability Roundtable
New York City, March 2014
- Introduction – Charles Fadel
- Comments on Frey and Osborne’s “The Future of Employment” – Frank Levy
- Deep Learning – Jürgen Schmidhuber
- Employment and Automation – Gary Marcus
- Exponential Change – Luke Muehlhauser
- First Framework for a Description of Computer Substitution – Frank Levy
- Hype vs. Reality: AI/Robotics and Employability – 5-15 Year Horizon – John Smart
- Labor Market Implications of Technological Change: Slow and Steady – Michael Handel
- Olin College of Engineering Collaboratory – Lynn Andrea Stein
- IBM and the New Era of Computing – Susan Puglia
- The Changing Job Market: Impact of Robotics, Automation, and AI on the Medium-Term Job Market – Henrik Christensen
Interdisciplinarity & Metacognition Colloquium
Paris, October 2013
- A Metacurriculum on Metacognition: What Instructors and Students Can Learn from Thinking About Learning – Karl Wirth
- ID Education: Theory and Findings – William Newell
- Insights from Work on Innovative Learning Environments – David Istance
- Interdisciplinarity in Primary Education: Why, What, and How? – Yves Lenoir
- Learning to Learn: What is It and Can It be Measured? – Ulf Fredriksson
- Metacognition and Self-Regulated Learning: Issues, Interdisciplinary Methods, and Advanced Learning Technologies – Roger Azevedo
- Metacognition in the Classroom – Peter Nilsson
Futurists & Educators Meetings
Humanity is facing severe difficulties at societal, economic, and personal levels. Technology’s exponential growth is rapidly compounding the problems via automation and offshoring causing social disruptions. Education is falling behind the curve. So, what should students learn in the 21st Century to meet the world’s and their needs?
Cambridge, MA, January and September 2012
Meeting 1
- Drivers of Change & the Implications for Learning and Education – Jillian Darwish
- Education’s Futures – Who Benefits? – Keri Facer
- The Impact of Technology – Charles Fadel
- What Should Students Learn in the 21st Century? – Charles Fadel
- What Should Students Learn in the 21st Century? – Riel Miller
- Day 2 Discussion
Meeting 2
- Shaping a World of Learning – Jillian Darwish
- The Automation of Invention: Implications for Education – Robert Plotkin
- What Should Students Learn in the 21st Century? – Charles Fadel
21st Century Education – What Should Students Learn in the 21st Century: A CCR Plenary
What should students be learning in the 21st century? What top-level changes should be made to the school curriculum – what topics and subjects should be added, and just as crucially, what should be removed?
Paris, June 2012
- Introduction – Charles Fadel
- Economic Perspective – Charles Fadel
- FIRST Robotics – John Abele
- Innovating the Curriculum, Teaching, and Pedagogy – Dirk Van Damme
- PISA: Strong Performers and Successful Reformers – Andreas Schleicher
- Skills Strategy – Andreas Schleicher
- The Impact of Technology – Charles Fadel
- The Value of Character Education – Attilio Oliva
- What do employers want and need? – Marita Aho
- What does Neuroscience Tell us about What should be Taught? – Jennifer Groff
- What is [Re]design? – Jennifer Groff
- What Mathematics do People Really Use in the Workplace? – Merrilea Mayo
- Why Journalism? How Journalism can Revolutionize Education – Esther Wojcicki
- Why/Why Not a Global Curriculum? Beyond the “Black Box” Model of Curriculum Design – Keri Facer
- Jurisdiction Updates:
- Summary
Colloquium on Neuroscience in Education
Can neuroscience inform not just the How, but the What, of education?
Cambridge, MA, May 2012
Methodology to Assess Workforce Readiness Meeting
Participants discussed the development of the “Workforce Readiness Barometer” and its potential value and limitations to educators and the business community.
New York City, February 2012
