education

10
Mar
2025

No Pain, No Gain? Does Generative AI Make Students Bypass the Peaks of Education?

Troy Jollimore in The Walrus raises some profound and thorny issues about the havoc generative AI ‘magic bag’ tools like ChatGPT are wreaking on education, issues that remain open and unresolved. His main concern is that if students don’t put in the blood, sweat, and tears of genuine effort, we risk devaluing education’s true purpose. It’s not just about passing a course or getting a degree; it’s about cultivating individuals who can think critically, solve problems creatively, and contribute meaningfully to society:

“So I am in a position to know and appreciate what a difference education makes to the quality of your life. The vastness of the world it opens up to you while simultaneously instilling in you the curiosity to explore it.… Read more...

Posted by Aldo de Moor in Ideas, 1 comment
10
Dec
2024

Talk – From Classroom to Global Stage: Harnessing Deliberation on Wicked Problems in Education

The First Symposium on Educating for Collective Intelligence took place on December 5th and 6th, 2024. It was an honor to be invited as one of the speakers.


Check out my talk “From Classroom to Global Stage: Harnessing Deliberation on Wicked Problems in Education”, as well as the position paper that went along with it. Let me know what you think the role of the classroom could be in building capacity for social impact.

Posted by Aldo de Moor in Conferences, Publications, 0 comments
04
Apr
2014

New publication: The “Kids’ Knowledge Base”: Connecting Junior Science to Society

Just published: A. de Moor  (2014), The “Kids’ Knowledge Base”: Connecting Junior Science to Society. In Proc. of Chi Sparks 2014, The Hague, the Netherlands. The Hague University of Applied Sciences, pp.108-111.

Abstract

Universities try to reinforce their connections with society in many different ways. Introducing children to science at an early age is an important part of this mission. The online “Kids’ Knowledge Base” is a key instrument for presenting showcases of various scientific fields to primary school children, thereby aiming to pique their curiosity. We outline the architecture and development process of the Kids’ Knowledge Base, and describe how it is increasingly being embedded in an ecosystem of online and physical tools, stakeholder networks, and activities.

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Posted by Aldo de Moor in CommunitySense, Projects, Publications, 0 comments
29
Oct
2013

New publication: Public Libraries as Social Innovation Catalysts

Just published: A. de Moor and R. van den Assem (2013), Public Libraries as Social Innovation Catalysts. In Proc. of the 10th Prato CIRN Conference “Nexus, Confluence, and Difference: Community Archives meets Community Informatics”, Prato, Italy, Oct 28-30 2013.

Abstract
Public libraries urgently need to reinvent their role in society. Through social innovation, libraries may adopt new functions and roles and even act as innovation catalysts in networks of increasingly interdependent stakeholders from different sectors. We investigate how to design such inter-sectoral public library innovations that are embedded in existing organizational practice and are both sustainable and scalable.  We outline a practical social innovation sensemaking method based on a combination of a social innovation collaboration network model and process model.… Read more...

Posted by Aldo de Moor in CommunitySense, Publications, 0 comments