The document discusses a proposal by the Arab League to revolutionize educational systems through artificial intelligence-enabled platforms. It outlines challenges with current education approaches and curricula. The proposal aims to transform teaching methods, develop a global technology-driven curriculum covering 100,000 issues, and reach 100 million students. It would utilize AI for personalized adaptive learning, assessments, and interactions in multiple languages. The goal is to better prepare students for the future through more effective critical thinking development.

1. Reaching New Skies with Artificial Intelligence
Enabled Educational Platforms: An Initiative by the Arab
League to Revolutionize Learning Systems
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2. Experiencing innovation and
technological disruptions at
an unprecedented rate.

3. Education in the learning economy lays the
foundations for productivity, creativity,
technological advances, economic and
social progress, and income distribution.

4. Education is fundamental to
development and growth

5. What’s the Purpose of
Education?

6. “The purpose of education
has always been to every
one, in essence, the same -
to give the young the things
they need in order to
develop in an orderly,
sequential way into
members of society... Any
education is, in its forms and
methods, an outgrowth of
the needs of the society in
which it exists.”
—John Dewey, “Individual
Psychology and Education,”
The Philosopher, 12, 1934

7. “The function of education is
to teach one to think
intensively and to think
critically. But education which
stops with efficiency may
prove the greatest menace to
society. The most dangerous
criminal may be the man
gifted with reason but no
morals. … We must remember
that intelligence is not enough.
Intelligence plus character—
that is the goal of true
education.”
- Martin Luther King Jr., speech
at Morehouse College, 1948

8. The main purpose of the
American school is to provide
for the fullest possible
development
of each learner for living
morally, creatively, and
productively in a democratic
society.”
- The ASCD Committee on
Platform of Beliefs,
Educational Leadership,
January 1957
“[The purpose of education]
has changed from that of
producing a literate society to
that of producing a learning
society.”
- Margaret Ammons, Associate
Secretary of ASCD, “Purpose
and Program: How Does
Commitment Today Differ from
That in Other Periods,”
- Educational Leadership,
October 1964

9. “The one continuing purpose
of education, since ancient
times, has been to bring
people to as full a realization
as possible of what it is to be a
human being."
- Arthur W. Foshay, “The
Curriculum Matrix:
Transcendence and
Mathematics,” Journal of
Curriculum and Supervision,
1991

10. “Unless steered with a purpose,
the rapid advance of science
and technology may widen
inequities, exacerbate social
fragmentation and accelerate
resource depletion. In the 21st
century, that purpose has
been increasingly defined in
terms of well-being.”
– OECD, “The Future of
Education and Skills: Education
2030”, OECD, 2018

11. Purpose of Education
Preparing human beings to positively
contribute to their societies.

12. • Global awareness
of quality education
• Greater information
accessibility due to
technology

13. A global view of the need to
critically examine adequacy
of current education systems.

14. The State of the World and
State of our Current Society

15. Global inequality gap is getting
wider.. and education inequality
continuous to perpetuate social and
economic inequality.

16. 621 million young people (15-24) aren’t
in education, employment or training.

17. Total Unemployed exceed 192 million
people

18. Youth are more likely to be
unemployed than adults

19. 1.4 billion people are in vulnerable employment,
and another 35 million to join in 2019

20. More than a billion young persons
will enter labour market in a
decade.. and will have irregular
and informal employment.

21. ½ of todays jobs will be
replaced by machines

22. Arab countries need to create 100
million new jobs in next 15-20 years

23. New economy requires a different
mindset!

24. Challenges of Education in
Today’s World?

25. Unchanged Teaching Methodologies
Over the past 150 years the mode of teaching has remained
the same. Do we want to continue this into the Future?

26. Existing school systems
generate mass
production of basic
literates and unleash
them on the globe for
the livelihood, defeating
the very purpose of
Education.
The soul and sense of
education is completely
lost in the meaningless
exercise of attending
schools.
01
02
03
04
05
Schools are producing
mass literates with
Unidimensional Teaching
Schools seem inclined
towards quantity than
quality
Curriculum not designed for
long term economic goals of
a nation
Current curriculum doesn’t
challenge mental capacities
or critical thinking
Curriculum lacks sensitization
to inclusivity, tolerance and
social justice

27. Existing school systems
generate mass
production of basic
literates and unleash
them on the globe for
the livelihood, defeating
the very purpose of
Education.
The soul and sense of
education is completely
lost in the meaningless
exercise of attending
schools.
01
02
03
04
05
Schools are producing
mass literates with
Unidimensional Teaching
Schools seem inclined
towards quantity than quality
Curriculum not designed for
long term economic goals of
a nation
Current curriculum doesn’t
challenge mental capacities
or critical thinking
Curriculum lacks sensitization
to inclusivity, tolerance and
social justice

28. Existing school systems
generate mass
production of basic
literates and unleash
them on the globe for
the livelihood, defeating
the very purpose of
Education.
The soul and sense of
education is completely
lost in the meaningless
exercise of attending
schools.
01
02
03
04
05
Schools are producing
mass literates with
Unidimensional Teaching
Schools seem inclined
towards quantity than
quality
Curriculum not designed for
long term economic goals of
a nation
Current curriculum doesn’t
challenge mental capacities
or critical thinking
Curriculum lacks sensitization
to inclusivity, tolerance and
social justice

29. Existing school systems
generate mass
production of basic
literates and unleash
them on the globe for
the livelihood, defeating
the very purpose of
Education.
The soul and sense of
education is completely
lost in the meaningless
exercise of attending
schools.
01
02
03
04
05
Schools are producing
mass literates with
Unidimensional Teaching
Schools seem inclined
towards quantity than
quality
Curriculum not designed for
long term economic goals of
a nation
Current curriculum doesn’t
challenge mental capacities
or critical thinking
Curriculum lacks sensitization
to inclusivity, tolerance and
social justice

30. Existing school systems
generate mass
production of basic
literates and unleash
them on the globe for
the livelihood, defeating
the very purpose of
Education.
The soul and sense of
education is completely
lost in the meaningless
exercise of attending
schools.
01
02
03
04
05
Schools are producing
mass literates with
Unidimensional Teaching
Schools seem inclined
towards quantity than
quality
Curriculum not designed for
long term economic goals of
a nation
Current curriculum doesn’t
challenge mental capacities
or critical thinking
Curriculum lacks sensitization
to inclusivity, tolerance and
social justice

31. Literate
Unemployable
Masses of
Population!
.. a recipe for
Disastrous National
Security.

32. There needs to be a
drastic revolutionary
change in the
curriculum to mold
the impressionable
minds for “Higher
Order Thinking Skills”

33. Digital Economy:
Arab Strategic Vision
“… support digital
transformation in Arab region
and enable innovation,
interaction and integration.”

34. Key Stakeholders

35. Economic
Growth
Social Welfare
Innovation &
Competition
Job Creation
Contributions:

36. Public
Sector
Manufacturing
Education Healthcare
FinancialTrade
Impact on
Critical Sector
$3 Trillion to
Arab’s GDP over a
period of 10 years

37. The Education Program
Proposal

38. 01 02 03 04
Transform
current roles of
teachers as
gate keepers of
knowledge into
processing
knowledge to
wisdom
Use of
technology for
information
dissemination
and mentoring
for information
processing
Intelligent-
adaptable for
personalized
learning needs
Challenge basic
intellect of
impressionable
minds and
create a critical
thinking mind
05
Omni present
education
unbounded by
school walls to
drive
Knowledge
Economy in the
Digital World
Curriculum Characteristics

39. 01
02
03
04
Global Curriculum
Design New Global Curriculum leveraging
current content in the global digital libraries
100 million Students
Reach 100 million students in the needy
countries
0.1 million Global Issues
Curriculum to cover 100,000 global
issues and explore solutions
50 million contributors
Target to enlist contributors to the knowledge management
of education content and knowledge dissemination
The Roadmap and
Education Objectives

40. TECHNOLOGY
DRIVEN CURRICULUM
GOALS
Way Forward
Global Curriculum
Re-Defined
Education Goals
Development
Develop the Universal Technology Driven
Curriculum and train the mentors and facilitators
for imparting the knowledge to the learners
Align sustainability goals with
education objectives and to be
incorporated into their curriculum

41. Machine learning, Artificial intelligence,
big data, deep learning, neural networks,
blockchain, augmented and virtual realtiy
will transform the future of learning.

42. Artificial
intelligence
“Artificial intelligence is
set to change not only
what teachers teach
but how they teach”.
– Jennifer Rexford
Princeton- Head of
Computer Science

43. Personalized
Content
AI can help in setting up
personalized content for each
student based on the pace of
learning. AI can thus provide
qualitative education to each
student as per their
personalized needs.

44. Teaching today delivers
unidirectional content to
the students – oepating
in one direction only -
compared to reciprocal
approach that supports
comprehension through:
questioning, clarifying,
summarizing, and
predicting.

45. The premise for AI enabled
personalized learning is to
create custom curriculum
and learning objectives,
based on the learning
needs of each individual,
and based on the his/her
level of and pace of
understanding

46. Adaptive Learning
Course adjustments
and learning
material
enhancements for
each student
based on their
learning capacities
and aptitude.

47. Learning
Performance
The Teacher can get
individual
performance of each
student and indicate
areas that need
further improvement
as a feedback to the
Teachers. Teachers
then turn true
facilitators in the
Knowledge Transfer

48. Natural Language
Processing
Enable learners to interact
using Natural languages for
learning activities.

49. With AI, learners and educators may easily speak
different languages without learning them!

50. Chatbot’s to understand different languages
and converse in each ..

51. Grading the
Students
Transparent and
automated grading
for enabling the
inclusion of all
participants in the
learning process.

52. Gamified education apps to increase formal and
informal learning, participation, engagement, and
competition.

53. Augmented and virtual reality
will provide interactive
experience to learners

54. Define Goals
Define Overall Strategy and
Specific Goals for Education
Boost Curriculum
Develop the courses and,
Develop the learning and
mentoring methodology
Test Curriculum
Select a focus group and
test the curriculum vis a vis
stated goals..
Fine Tune Curriculum, if
and as required
Pilot Implementation
Select a group of low
performing countries and
implement the curriculum
across at least 100 schools
and 10000 learners
Cross-functional input
Include measurements and inputs from cross
functional experts to assess development
and effectiveness of curriculum
Universal Adoption
Lead the process of curriculum adoption with
input from national governments
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55. Conclusion

56. • Education has
important
implications for our
future, economic
growth, development
and stability.
• Global challenges
need to be
addressed through
education
• Existing education
systems need a
reshuffle!

57. Machine Learning and AI will play a key role in
transforming knowledge and learning practices.

58. “Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a defining
issue of our time, affecting national security,
economic development, human rights, and social
media—for better and worse.”

59. Emerging technologies in
the age of machines
demand rethinking the
education game and
reformation of teaching
and learning methods.

60. Major issues await the world in few decades
that demands focus on solutions to address
the terrifying realities of the future.

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Professor Dr. Ali M. Al-Khouri
Advisor, Arab Economic Unity Council
Chairman – Arab Federation for Digital Economy
League of Arab States
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