Our challenge, at 9 Billion Schools and in the quest to reimagine learning, is to tear down those fences and allow learning to flourish outside of them, to champion learning across a lifespan.
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We at 9 Billion Schools believe that, when it comes to education, society needs to reinvent the wheel – to rethink the way we learn. That’s a tall order, but in the heart of downtown Brooklyn, a husband-wife duo is taking it spoke by spoke.
Read MoreAs part of our 9 Billion Schools “One School’s Journey” blog series, we examine how different educational trends create opportunities for parochial schools like Mercy McAuley High School to differentiate themselves from other educational institutions. Private and parochial schools have more freedom to determine curriculum, testing and academic structure, allowing greater flexibility to adjust to educational trends.
Read MoreThis post in the One School’s Journey blog series explores business trends impacting education from Amy Hanson’s presentation during our futurecasting session.
Read MoreAt its foundation, 9 Billion Schools believes in life-long, life-wide and life-deep personalized learning for all. It recognizes that learning is not limited to formal education—from the moment we’re born until the moment we die, we’re in a constant state of learning. That even includes our “off” time; leisure learning makes up a larger portion of our life than our time inside the classroom.
Read MoreChristopher Nicak, Associate Director of Research at the Economics Center of the University of Cincinnati, presented on the local, regional and national economic forecast with a focus on jobs and future opportunities for today’s students.
Read MoreEarlier this month, a 96-year-old New Jersey native, known as “Auntie Lee” to her local community, was awarded her high school diploma after passing the GED – a mere 80 years after dropping out of school to tend her family’s farm.
Read More9 Billion Schools is far from the first to advocate for lifelong learning and its many benefits. The benefits of life-long, life-wide and life-deep (L3) learning have been expressed by some of the greatest minds throughout history. To inspire inquisitive minds to never stop learning, here are ten quotes from people who exemplified the L3 learning lifestyle.
Read MoreThe future of work is going to look very different than it does today. Significant advances in technology and shifts in economies and culture will bring about a new age of intelligent tools, robots and smart environments. All of these technologies will be aware. They will have the ability to make sense of their surroundings and they will be social with people who are using them. The rise of these sentient tools will have a significant impact on the global work force and education, leaving practically no industry unaffected.
Read MoreOur One School’s Journey blog series covers our work with two Cincinnati high schools which will merge in 2018-19 to create a brand new institution, Mercy McAuley High School. During a two-day futurecasting session, the Mercy McAuley transition team heard presentations from different stakeholders on a variety of issues affecting the school and community’s future.
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