{"id":9799,"date":"2019-11-22T16:50:28","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T14:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oeb.global\/oeb-insights\/?p=9799"},"modified":"2019-11-22T16:50:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T14:50:28","slug":"meet-the-oeb-2019-speakers-iyad-rahwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oeb.global\/oeb-insights\/meet-the-oeb-2019-speakers-iyad-rahwan\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the OEB 2019 Speakers: Iyad Rahwan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Opening Plenary Speaker<\/strong> Iyad Rahwan<\/a> is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development where he founded the Centre for Humans & Machines and Associate Professor at the MIT Media Lab. His work revolves around computer and social science and the social aspects of artificial intelligence.

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1. Who, or what, was your most important teacher?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

My math teacher in primary school.

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2. What were your best\/worst subjects in school?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Best: math. Worst: chemistry.



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3. If you could try out any job for a day, what would you like<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Professional skateboarder.

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4. Which technology, in your view, had the biggest influence on the way we learn now<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Social media. It changes social learning, which is what most learning is, in my opinion.

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5. What is the coolest gadget \/ technology \/ tool you have seen lately?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A box to lock your phone away in the evening.

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6. What current learning trend do you think will have a lasting impact<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Letting kids play outside.

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What would be the title of your autobiography? <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Please don’t.

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8. Who would you recommend in the Learning World to follow on social media right now? <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sandy Pentland, from MIT

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9. What was your first thought about OEB 2019\u2019s overall theme: Discovering Learning <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We still do not fully understand learning.

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10. What do you hope to take away from OEB?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

See how the learning industry thinks.

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The Opening Plenary<\/a> will take place on Thursday, Nov 28 from 09:30-11:00 – in room: Potsdam I \/ III<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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