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The Learning Revolution: Knowing

Knowing

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Alex Beard imagines a world without the school as we know it. Episode 1: Knowing.

Alex Beard investigates what it means to know in a future where AI are our intellectual companions, and we face environmental, political and social uncertainty.

In a world where a tiny parasite can immobilise societies across the world, Alex Beard asks what kind of knowledge will be crucial to learn in the future.

Today, we have more access to information and knowledge than we have ever done before. So what does knowing mean today when you can simply ask Google? We take a deeper look into how our brains use and store information, and find out whether future generations could be using their brains in very different ways. 

And as a species, what we know grows in reaction to the ever changing, and often challenging, world around us. In the midst of these changes, we ask whether facts and figures have a place in education when those facts and figures are changing. 

Alex Beard used to be a teacher, and is now an education explorer, of sorts. In the first episode of The Learning Revolution, he quizzes some of today's biggest minds in philosophy, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, urban innovation, and climate change, to find out what we'll really need to know in an ever changing world. 

Presenter: Alex Beard
Producers: Emma Barnaby and Dan Hardoon
Executive Producer: Deborah Dudgeon
A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4

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