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Kevin is founder of the world.edu project. The past 28 years have been involved in publishing to the education sector in print and the internet. Kevin has a degree in Education and has a many years experience in developing companies and projects.
Strategies to improve professional skills and move up the career ladder

Strategies to improve professional skills and move up the career ladder

Have you ever lost a job opportunity because you lacked qualifications? If so, you have to read this article. Updating our professional skills is essential so that we do not stagnate in our career. Learning is everything. What we learn becomes a part of ourselves and accompanies us throughout our lives. We evolve and our environment too, so it […] … learn more→

Gliding, not searching: Here’s how to reset your view of ChatGPT to steer it to better results

Gliding, not searching: Here’s how to reset your view of ChatGPT to steer it to better results

ChatGPT has exploded in popularity, and people are using it to write articles and essays, generate marketing copy and computer code, or simply as a learning or research tool. However, most people don’t understand how it works or what it can do, so they are either not happy with its results or not using it in a way that can draw out its best […] … learn more→

Student number caps on ‘rip-off degrees’ overlook their potential benefits for social mobility

Student number caps on ‘rip-off degrees’ overlook their potential benefits for social mobility

The government has promised to crack down on “rip-off degrees” in England. It will place a cap on student numbers for courses that deliver “poor outcomes” for students – because they have high drop-out rates or do not lead to well-paying jobs. The intention of the government intervention is to ensure that students get appropriate value from […] … learn more→

Can you trust AI? Here’s why you shouldn’t

Can you trust AI? Here’s why you shouldn’t

If you ask Alexa, Amazon’s voice assistant AI system, whether Amazon is a monopoly, it responds by saying it doesn’t know. It doesn’t take much to make it lambaste the other tech giants, but it’s silent about its own corporate parent’s misdeeds. When Alexa responds in this way, it’s obvious that it is putting its developer’s interests […] … learn more→

Can we prevent teachers from 'burning out'?

Can we prevent teachers from ‘burning out’?

The Spanish education system has once again received a slap on the wrist through the recent OECD report . Proposals for reducing early school leaving include the need to support teachers so that they can manage the new demands of education and the practice of their profession does not lead to frustration and the well-known burnout syndrome, since […] … learn more→

7 everyday ways to foster children’s math and literacy skills to avoid ‘summer slide’ learning loss

7 everyday ways to foster children’s math and literacy skills to avoid ‘summer slide’ learning loss

The summer is a great time for children to play, relax and socialize with friends. It can also be a time when children lose some of what they learned during the school year. Some psychologists and educators refer to the “summer slide” as the loss of learning that can happen over the summer months, when children […] … learn more→

The hidden cost of the AI boom: social and environmental exploitation

The hidden cost of the AI boom: social and environmental exploitation

Mainstream conversations about artificial intelligence (AI) have been dominated by a few key concerns, such as whether superintelligent AI will wipe us out, or whether AI will steal our jobs. But we’ve paid less attention the various other environmental and social impacts of our “consumption” of AI, which are arguably just as important. Everything we consume […] … learn more→

First contact with aliens could end in colonization and genocide if we don’t learn from history

First contact with aliens could end in colonization and genocide if we don’t learn from history

We’re only halfway through 2023, and it feels already like the year of alien contact. In February, President Joe Biden gave orders to shoot down three unidentified aerial phenomena – NASA’s title for UFOs. Then, the alleged leaked footage from a Navy pilot of a UFO, and then news of a whistleblower’s report on a possible U.S. government cover-up about UFO […] … learn more→

FTC probe of OpenAI: Consumer protection is the opening salvo of US AI regulation

FTC probe of OpenAI: Consumer protection is the opening salvo of US AI regulation

The Federal Trade Commission has launched an investigation of ChatGPT maker OpenAI for potential violations of consumer protection laws. The FTC sent the company a 20-page demand for information in the week of July 10, 2023. The move comes as European regulators have begun to take action, and Congress is working on legislation to regulate the artificial intelligence industry. […] … learn more→

If your kid is home sick from school, is unlimited screen time OK?

If your kid is home sick from school, is unlimited screen time OK?

Not so long ago, if a child was home sick from school, the main screen-based entertainment was daytime television. The options were limited to The Price is Right or reruns of Home and Away. Fast forward to the present day and we have multiple streaming services, tablets, smartphones, and an endless reservoir of content made […] … learn more→