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Knowledge and skills are the power. One can be self-reliant and seize a brighter future with the right capacity, even without status and wealth. Yet, its foundation — education — is extremely fragile and a prime example of today's global inequality. Too many students over teachers. Low relevance of the content to learners' reality. Limited choices due to financial and geographical hurdles. Receiving quality education is still a privilege in many parts of the world. To fill the gap, many…
Our world is beautifully complex, but it doesn't necessarily have to be as complicated as it is today. Complex vs. Complicated Being complex and complicated are fundamentally different. The former is always unpredictable, dynamic, interdependent, and self-organizing by nature. Numerous factors influence one another, and the output for a given input is probabilistic, if not completely random. There is no fixed rule of saying, "If you do this, that always happens." Climate change, global…
By and large, digital systems consist of two different parts: data and information. This website, takuti.me, for example, is composed of a combination of numbers, text, images, and links. They exist in the digital world as data, which can be represented by the binary digits 0 and 1. Think of them as raw ingredients of a meal; each of them can be something yet unsophisticated to us as-is. On the other hand, information is the result of processing and organizing data in a meaningful way. It is a…
There are many educational practices out there. Recognizing the complexity, communities proposed a methodology called Design-Based Research (DBR). In contrast to traditional studies conducted in controlled laboratory settings, DBR contextualizes academic research by placing researchers alongside students and teachers as collaborators. Through an iterative design and feedback process in the field, DBR aims to yield authentic and useful knowledge in classroom practices. As such, education schol...
Technology is contextual, and hence neither oversimplification nor overcomplication is helpful; it'd be advisable to understand realistic constraints in a very environment and take a tailored approach point by point. But how can we "see" real challenges and opportunities a person, organization, community, country, or region faces in the information age? Where are you currently at, in terms of digital divide? One way to evaluate this is to travel to a field, spend time with locals, and co-expl...
