123: Rebuilding Education, Increasing Learner Agency, and Solving Real World Problems Using AI with Serj Hunt
What if education could be a launchpad for innovation instead of a standardized assembly line?
Join us as Serj Hunt, Founder of City as a School, dismantles traditional learning models and reveals a radical approach to preparing young people for a complex, rapidly changing world.
From AI-powered learning to real-world problem-solving, this conversation challenges everything you thought you knew about education.
IN THIS EPISODE, WE DISCUSS:
- Learner agency and how we can empowering students to navigate uncertainty and take initiative.
- Why education must evolve beyond traditional testing and grades and how we can make it happen
- How solving real-world problems helps students learn and educators measure success
- The incredible role AI plays as a tool for student learning and growth.
RESOURCES AND LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
- Connect with Serj on X and LinkedIn
- Visit www.cityasaschool.com
- Build a private workspace of AI agents using chipp.ai
- Read Serj's Article "Beyond Standardised Tests — New Goals in Education: Learner Agency supported by AI pedagogy"
- Learn more about the Rebel Project Literacy Curriculum, a fully integrated literacy and project based learning curriculum, at projectup.us or inkwire.co/rplc
- Get your copy of Rebel Educator: Create Classrooms Where Impact and Imagination Meet
- Learn more about Rebel Educator, explore our professional development opportunities for educators and students, and check out our project library.
- Visit us at UP Academy to learn more about our personalized and inclusive learning environment.
- Connect with Tanya and UP Academy on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram and learn more about her journey here.
GUEST BIO:
Serj Hunt is the Founder of City as a School, which is airbnb for learning + AI copilots for 16-25 year olds to build their dream career. He's also Co-founder of Chipp, the easiest way to build share and sell AI assistants.
Serj's approach to education draws from his work as an associate with Wild Learning Sciences, which works with organisations to establish new learning analytics to develop learner agency.
His interdisciplinary experience across industries and age groups drives forwards the mission of enabling learning ecosystems at the city scale so that young people can discover how their unique talents can best contribute to society to lead a life of flourishing.
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In each episode of the Rebel Educator podcast, I deconstruct world-class educators, students, and thought leaders in education to extract the tactics, tools, and routines that you can use as teachers and parents. Join me as we discuss how to shift the classroom, the learning environment, the mindset, and the pedagogy, to resist tradition, reignite wonder, and re-imagine the future of education.
This podcast is dedicated to all of the educators who work thankless hours to make our next generation the best it can be. It was designed to begin conversations on how we can redesign education for the future of work and the success of our students. It is meant for teachers, students, administrators, homeschoolers and anyone who interacts with and teaches youth.
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