We need to stop designing schools for teaching and start designing schools for learning.

Heartbreaking - 116 children and 38 adults - Never forgotten

Imagine what an insane comedy this would be if they did a relaunch right now! Incredible how 7 years ago they basically predicted where we would be today.

The US has spent almost its entire national debt on preparing for a war that never happened and fighting wars it did not win or that largely did not deliver.

Everyone think’s @elonmusk is playing one game, when he’s playing another. The result is that they’ve already lost because Elon is the ONLY person who can take all the heavy compute out of your hand, tablet, laptop, autonomous car, or robot, and make it available 100% of the time in 10s of milliseconds from anywhere in the world by putting it above everyone’s heads. That’s a massive competitive advantage that only the Chinese government could possibly catch, and most of the world is unlikely to hand the Chinese government a window into every corner of their life.

Can’t imagine this car selling well in the Middle East. No-one would ever see the roads 🤣

HUGE milestone last night as our 2,000th school registered for Earthrise:Live on 19th November! Welcome to Chadron Middle School in Nebraska USA! It’s not too late to register for this free global event, wherever your school might be.

Our closest school to Santa has just joined Earthrise:Live! 🎅🌍 East Three Secondary School in Inuvik, Canada, is around 200 km north of the Arctic Circle, making it our northernmost participating school. On 19 November, their students will connect with children elsewhere in the world, sharing stories about their communities, cultures and everyday lives. With typical November temperatures well below freezing and only around four hours of sunlight, everyday life in Inuvik could look very different from that of the children they meet. That’s what makes these conversations so valuable: a chance to discover our differences, find common ground and make the world feel a little smaller. There’s still time for your school to join. Participation is completely free.

This is a thing of beauty. Range Rover quality for VW ID5 pricing.

Last week, early career mathematicians faced the reality that AI/SI could wipe out their careers. Will any career be safe?

WARNING: Kellogg's Coco Pops have changed their recipe. The new ingredient list explicitly includes WHEAT GLUTEN!! If you have coeliac disease, a wheat allergy or gluten sensitivity, check the ingredients before eating, even if you've bought the cereal for years. A little blue circle is far too small in this situation.

Overheard at a recent @WhiteHouse dinner….

And, almost in the blink of an eye, there are 64 nations on the Earthrise:Live map. 🌍 Our newest dot is Novi Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina, where OŠ “Safvet-beg Bašagić” has become the 1,705th school to join us. A few weeks ago, many of these dots didn’t exist. Now they stretch across six continents - across oceans, borders, languages and cultures - each one representing a classroom full of young people about to discover a little more of the world beyond their own. That’s what makes 64 nations feel so special. Not the number itself. But what every new nation makes possible. 1,705 schools. 64 nations. 6 continents. Welcome to Earthrise:Live, Bosnia and Herzegovina. 🇧🇦❤️

A lovely milestone this morning. 🇬🇷❤️ The 10th General Lyceum of Larissa has just become the 1,700th school to join Earthrise:Live. That feels worth stopping to celebrate. Larissa sits in the heart of Thessaly, surrounded by one of Greece’s great agricultural landscapes. It’s a historic city, but also a busy, modern regional centre — and now a group of its young people will be looking far beyond Greece, meeting classrooms and children in very different parts of the world. The 10th General Lyceum of Larissa is an upper-secondary school, and seeing the young people in this photograph somehow makes the number 1,700 feel much more real. Because Earthrise:Live isn’t really about numbers on a dashboard. It’s about these students, and thousands like them, being given the chance to meet someone they might otherwise never encounter. Different countries. Different languages. Different lives. And then, for a little while, one shared classroom. 🌍 1,700 schools 🌎 63 nations 🌏 6 continents A very warm welcome to the students and staff of 10th General Lyceum of Larissa. You’ve become part of Earthrise:Live at a rather special moment. 💙🇬🇷 #EarthriseLive #Greece #Larissa #GlobalEducation #Education #Schools #InternationalEducation #WhatLabs

A generation in revolt? Something significant is happening among young people around the world. This week, lycée students across France, largely 15 to 18 year olds, have taken to the streets. What began with anger about teacher shortages, overcrowding, deteriorating schools and their futures has spread rapidly, with university students joining too. And these aren’t simply young people posting their frustrations online. In parts of France there have been barricades, fires and violent confrontations with police. Thousands have been arrested and both police officers and young protesters have been injured. But France isn’t happening in isolation. Over the past year or so we’ve seen significant youth-led protest movements in Nepal, India, Indonesia, Morocco, Madagascar, Bulgaria, Serbia and elsewhere. The triggers are different. These aren’t one movement, and we shouldn’t pretend they are. But some of the underlying frustrations sound remarkably familiar. Education that doesn’t always feel fit for the future. Jobs and economic security becoming harder to reach. Housing increasingly unaffordable. Frustration with corruption, inequality and institutions. And now AI and robotics are beginning to transform the labour market just as this generation prepares to enter it. Whatever we think about the violence, something deserves our attention when teenagers become prepared to confront the state on the streets over the future they believe they’re inheriting. I spend a lot of time thinking about how we prepare young people for the future. Perhaps we need to ask the opposite question too: Are we building a future that young people actually believe in? France may simply be the latest national protest driven by its own particular circumstances. Or we may be watching something much bigger beginning to cross borders.