Global Headquarters
24 Greville Street
London EC1N 8SS
Tel. +44(0)20 7824 7040
Email: ecis@ecis.org
North America Office
1701 K St NW, Suite 250
Washington DC 20006
Tel. +1 202 455 0967
Email: ecis@ecis.org
24 Greville Street
London EC1N 8SS
Tel. +44(0)20 7824 7040
Email: ecis@ecis.org
North America Office
1701 K St NW, Suite 250
Washington DC 20006
Tel. +1 202 455 0967
Email: ecis@ecis.org
ABOUT ECIS
Founded in 1965, ECIS is a non-profit global membership organisation that supports schools in the areas of teacher development, leadership development, recruitment and human resources, governance and risk, and global advisory, complemented by grants and awards that illuminate significant impact.
Our mission is to transform lives through international education.
Our mission is to transform lives through international education.
Terraforming
/0 Comments/in Future of Learning, How We Do School, Leadership, Paradigm Shifts, What I Am Reading /by Kevin J Ruth“Today, as we gaze into the future, we see that the events that took place seventy-five thousand years ago may actually be a dress rehearsal for future catastrophes.” (2)
Whither Artificial Intelligence in Education?
/0 Comments/in Artificial Intelligence, Future of Learning, Leadership, Organisational Change, Research, Technology, What I Am Reading /by Kevin J RuthI’m simply looking for evidence that supports the typical assertion about why we use technology in schools, about why we spend so much of our budgets on costly information services and infrastructure.
The Siren Song of AI
/0 Comments/in Knowledge, Leadership, Learning, Technology /by Kevin J RuthThe siren song of artificial intelligence (AI) is absolutely mesmerising. Witness a recent posting in Chief Learning Officer magazine by the managing director of learning science platforms at a large publishing house, who, in a passionate plea for the place of AI in learning and development, states the following: “There has never been so much […]
An Aggregation of Individuals
/0 Comments/in Leadership, Organisational Change, Systems Thinking /by Kevin J RuthSenior leaders looking to effect organisational change can serve as champions of that change, provided that they go system-wide and motivate people to learn and change, create the conditions for them to apply what they’ve studied, foster immediate improvements in individual and organisational effectiveness, and put in place systems that help sustain the learning. To […]
School in an Age of Autonomous Agents With Free Will
/0 Comments/in Leadership /by Kevin J RuthDespite the jargon-laden title of this post, the content is about a simple matter: do we, as human beings (as educators, in our case), really know ourselves as well as we think we do?
Feeling Small and Out of Depth
/0 Comments/in Development, Leadership, Learning /by Kevin J RuthHow good are you at getting out of your comfort zone? How often do you spend time with people who stretch your thinking?