The education system has always required an anthropological model, an idea of man to guide pedagogical principles and teaching methods. The Homo Extensus paradigm, which is proposed here by the authors, is an attempt to imagine the forms of Human Intelligence in the age of Artificial Intelligence, and from these derive an innovative vision of…
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With the advent of Artificial Intelligence, we are facing, globally, a crucial crossroads for schools and educational systems in general. Let us try to look at education from a historical perspective, starting with the recent essay “Knowledge or Barbarism. History and Future of Education” by Jacques Attali, one of the greatest contemporary European intellectuals, who…
The Internet is a formidable competitor to traditional school systems, which could collapse not only in emerging countries, which are at risk of being overwhelmed by population growth, but also in more advanced ones. Amid growing uncertainty over global leadership among the superpowers, the power of Bigh Tech companies is set to grow, particularly in…
The tragic Covid 19 affair also profoundly affected the education system, leading to an unprecedented impact, with schools closing all over the world. Jacques Attali reports several emblematic figures: in April 2020, 94 percent of the world’s children (1.6 billion) were no longer in classrooms, a condition shared by 220 million university students. Video call…
In the face of the growing encroachment of Artificial Intelligence, which promises to vastly surpass human intelligence and replace it in many professional functions and tasks, including sophisticated ones, there is widespread bewilderment in the younger generation, a strong concern for individual prospects for growth and success. This results in insecurity and, in many cases,…
A non-immediate but decidedly disturbing and revolutionary prospect is that of bionic education, advocated by various trans-humanistic currents and pursued by tech companies such as Elon Musk’s Neuralink. It involves building digital prostheses to connect directly to the human brain, initially to treat neurological damage in people with brain diseases, but in the future also…
The university is a secular educational system that has evolved primarily from the Western approach-European and American-which has now become the model by which universities on all continents are inspired. The university system in the 21st century faces several threats, which may threaten the existence of many universities and perhaps the university institution itself: In…
In the face of these objectively fearsome threats, the school system can and indeed must react to remain at the center of humanity’s educational mission. The educational institution is instrumental in ensuring equal opportunities for students of various socioeconomic backgrounds, males and females, with different abilities. However, the school must build a synergistic relationship with…
The educational institution for 3,000 years has been based on writing and counting. Literacy is the basic requirement for the later stages of education, however based on the study of written sources, books, which consolidate shared knowledge. The benefits of literacy are obvious: it is an undisputed index of socioeconomic advancement globally. The historical, literate…
As a science of education, pedagogy contributes substantially to the design of new generations of humans through the training methodologies and processes that are interpreted and implemented within it. The methodologies of traditional pedagogy were developed in a pre-digital era, so they could not take into account the transformations, risks and opportunities of information technologies,…
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