The Future of Education With A Techno Optimist

Raya Bidshahri is a serial entrepreneur, writer, educator, futurist and keynote speaker. She has been described as a techno optimist, a communicator of popular science, and an advocate of curiosity, critical thinking, wonder, and awe. 

Raya is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Awecademy, a future-focussed educational organization that is disrupting traditional high school curricula and inspiring students to bring about civilization-level change.

In this podcast:

• Why traditional education models, systems and curriculum are outdated
• Why almost all global challenges, man-made ones especially, boil down to human limitations
• How parents can look to challenge the traditional education experience
• How exponential technologies can be used to tackle global and existential challenges facing our world
• Who Raya thinks we actually are (from a cosmic perspective)
• Raya’s passion—the one that she is willing to suffer for
• What the transformational points in Raya’s life have been
• Why the future of education takes a more blended, hybrid approach, it isn’t just online and digital
• Why the most challenging part of fundraising is subjectivity
• Raya’s advice to leaders
• What Raya believes the world needs most right now

Links:

• SciFest Dubai
• Robin Farmanfarmaian - The thought leaders formula
• Intelligent optimism
• A New Earth - Eckhart Tolle
• https://www.rayabidshahri.com/

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