The Information Myth: What We Get Wrong About Learning
Throughout human history, our species has lacked adequate information about the world. Our story has been one of challenging the status quo: learning, accumulating, sharing and synthesising information, from the best way to knap a flint blade, to effective ways to treat disease. When we’ve learned new things, we’ve seen how it has made our lives better, leading us to believe that more information is always better.
But what if we are wrong? What if the information-benefit curve is not an upward line, but a traditional bell curve? What if AI, in amplifying the information deluge of the digital age, might make things worse, not better?
Rather than chasing the next technological revolution in education, what might happen if we turn our attention back to human-scale information? What might school look like? And, is there a place for AI in such a journey?
Facilitated By
Ross Parker
Deputy Head of School, ICHK Secondary
Ross Parker is Deputy Head of School at International College Hong Kong. He is passionate about making learning a positive, anxiety-free process centered around personal transformation. This requires re-imagining school as a place where adult-adult relationships create a culture of trust, respect and shared purpose.
Ross is the founder of Gibbon, an open source school platform, and the Free Learning pedagogy, which is the topic of an academic book published by Routledge. With Free Learning, Ross aims to give students the freedom and agency to find their own passions, the support and encouragement to develop understanding and skills, and the intellectual tools and curiosity to make up their own minds about life. Ross believes that education should focus on learning to learn.
As a public speaker, Ross has presented at schools, companies, conferences and workshops around the world.
