Charles Fadel

Global Education Thought Leader, Author, Futurist & Inventor

Charles Fadel

Global Education Thought Leader, Author, Futurist & Inventor

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Biography

Charles Fadel is a global education thought leader and author, futurist and inventor; founder and chairman of Center for Curriculum Redesign; Member of the OECD AI Experts group; Chair emeritus of the education committee at BIAC/OECD; co-author of Education for the Age of AI (2024), Artificial Intelligence in Education (2019); Four-Dimensional Education (framework in 23 languages) and 21st Century Skills.

He has worked with education systems and institutions in more than 30 countries, and spent 25 years in technology management (including as founder of Neurodyne AI).

Formerly: Global Education Lead at Cisco Systems, visiting scholar at MIT ESG and Wharton/Penn CLO, project director at Harvard Graduate School of Education (2011-2018); member President’s Council at Olin College of Engineering, angel investor with Beacon Angels.

BSEE, MBA, seven patents awarded & one pending.

Speaker Videos

International Baccalaureate (IB) Global Conference (2024)

Speech Topics

Education for the Age of Artificial Intelligence

AI is upending the world, and opening both opportunities and challenges for educators. In this session, you will hear a sober, un-hyped and realistic assessment of AI’s fascinating new capabilities and their future evolution, and the consequences on:

WHAT we teach: the modernization of existing disciplines (Math, History, etc.), and the necessity for modern disciplines (Engineering, Social sciences, etc.).
HOW we teach: the need to teach via concepts and competencies (4C’s/SEL) not just content, to develop both expertise and transfer.

AI-based tools at the teacher level (curriculum & lesson planning, formative assessments) and student level (Intelligent Tutoring Systems) will be discussed as well.

AI Literacy

AI Literacy has become mandatory, in order to understand, in layperson’s terms what AI is capable of, its hype and limitations as well as its large capabilities. This section will also describe CCR’s upcoming AI Literacy course and its PD, with a mindset of “driving a car does not require you to be a mechanic.”

Curriculum for the Age of AI

How does a teacher or department manages to take into consideration all of the modern requirements? Essential content, core concepts, competencies, projects, formative assessments, identity/agency/purpose, digital literacy, etc.? CCR will describe both its methodology and its upcoming “Exobrain” tools to make teachers’ life easier.

Competencies for the Age of AI

Conversations about AI’s capabilities in competencies are very coarse and naive at best: “AI will be more creative than humans”, “Human creativity can never be matched” etc. This session will show how much “the devil is in the details” by highlighting the thorough analysis undertaken by CCR, and its conclusion about modern Emphasis.

Jobs Augmentation or Disappearance?

Although most economists and corporations agree that occupations will be impacted, the confusion reigns as to how exactly. This session will present a synthesis of the latest findings by leading economists, consultancies, and NGOs (MIT, McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, WEF, IMF, etc.)

Rightsizing AI

The AI hype machine is in full swing, and confuses businesses and education about what’s real vs what’s hype. A number of papers have explored the reasonable view, and continue to do so.