Education for the Age of AI - A Conversation with Charles Fadel

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).