I'm enjoying finally tuning into World Education Summit 2024 through Summit Central. Great to catch up with some of the key debates playing out in education in the current moment.
I enjoyed Michael Fullan's session on Compassionate Leadership, Impressive Empathy (ways we empathise with those we disagree with), and his notion of 'Spirit Work for a Shared Humanity' (as opposed to the concept of Moral Purpose which is focussed more explicitly on educational outcomes in Literacy and Numeracy). He also discusses the importance of 'moving towards the danger' of AI and the triad of Culture, Purpose and Technology as critical to all we do in schools.
Conrad Hughes talked about Generative AI and Critical Thinking - AI as another transformative Tech Tool to be embraced as we have with former revolutions in Tech, and his framing of AI in the broader context of Critical Thinking and Western Philosophy (I need to dig out the essay Heidegger wrote about Technology which he mentions).
Jim Knight on five myths of coaching - my favourites were the notion of coaching as 'asking with telling', and that coaching brings a quick fix (rather than using it as a tool to leverage growth and long term change).
Dame Alison Peacock DL, DLitt on transformating learning capacity through the affectional domain, social domain and intellectual domain - the importance of confidence, community, co-agency and control (in that environment anything is possible...)
Peter Tabichi on showing diversity in everything you do, and bringing the best out of our students
And finally Andy Hargreaves and Dennis Shirley on Identity - something we are all 'thinking and concerned about', and the link between identity and inclusion/equity. More to follow from me on this - I am currently reading their new book 'The Age of Identity', and particularly interested in the implications of their research on how we frame our curricula, values and communities as international educators.
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