🎙️Rethinking education with Nobel Prize winner, Carl Wieman

In this 41st episode of the Skills Factory podcast series, we discuss with Carl Wieman, Nobel Prize-winning physicist and professor at Stanford University, the future of education and the impact of artificial intelligence on learning.

What are the biggest challenges our education systems face?
Why are experiential learning and critical thinking important?
How should teaching look in the 21st century?
Why is it important for educators to support learners’ motivation?
If you are curious about the evolution of education, this episode is for you!
0:00 - Introduction
1:20 - Carl Weiman’s educational journey
4:10 - "Talking doesn't teach"
4:30 - "Don't fill up students brains with knowledge"
4:53 - "The learners brains are changeable"
5:20 - The basic paradigm "learning should be easy" is WRONG
6:23 - Biggest educational challenges
7:37 - Memorisation is a skill of the past. Problem solving skills is the future!
8:55 - Are our teachers ready to change?
10:03 - PHET project - innovative platform to teach STEAM
11:50 - Self-guided learning: does it work?
13:48 - The role of AI in education: to cheat or not to cheat
17:40 - AI revolution: should we be afraid
19:04 - The most rewarding thing about teaching is...
21:34 - Creativity: why bother?
23:09 - Nobel Prize winner's vision of the world


Host: Maria Lvova Zolotarevskaya


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