KSI Strategic Leadership Dialogue
Professor Yong Zhao
What Should Education Become in the Age of AI?
A 90 minute live interactive dialogue for international school educators and leaders
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This 90-minute session combines Professor Zhao’s opening reflections with a facilitated dialogue around the questions and challenges submitted by participating educators.
Meet the Thinker
Professor Yong Zhao is an internationally recognised education scholar and author of more than 40 books. His influential work challenges standardised, one-size-fits-all schooling and champions student agency, creativity and individual strengths.
His current thinking asks a more urgent question: will AI simply make the existing model more efficient—or help us invent a fundamentally different future for education?
Global Thought Leader
Prolific Author and Researcher
Questions His Work Asks of Schools
Are we using AI to transform education—or simply make an outdated model more efficient?
What is worth learning when AI can already do so much?
Should personalised learning be designed for students—or driven by students?
Which distinctively human strengths matter most in the age of AI?
The Evolution of his Educational Vision
Professor Yong Zhao’s work has followed one consistent question:
How must education change as the world changes?
Technology and Globalisation
2009
Examining how technology and global forces reshape education and society
Key work: Catching Up or Leading the Way (2009)
Challenging Standardisation
2012
High test scores and tightly controlled systems can come at the expense of creativity, individuality and entrepreneurship.
Key works: World Class Learners (2012); Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon? (2014)
Student Agency and Authentic Work
2015
Students should have greater autonomy, pursue meaningful problems and create work of genuine value beyond the classroom.
Key works: The Take-Action Guide to World Class Learners, Book 1 (2015); Book 2 (2016)
Personalisation and Human Potential
2018
Education should help every learner develop their distinctive strengths, interests and passions—not make everyone conform to identical expectations.
Key works: Reach for Greatness (2018); Teaching Students to Become Self-Determined Learners (2020)
Learning for Uncertainty
2021
Schools cannot prepare students for one predictable future. Learners need agency, adaptability and the capacity to find and solve meaningful problems.
Key works: Learners Without Borders (2021); Learning for Uncertainty (2022)
Reinventing Education in the Age of AI
2025
AI should not simply make the existing model of schooling more efficient. It creates an opportunity to rethink curriculum, assessment, the role of teachers and the purpose of education itself.
Key works: Fix the Past or Invent the Future (2025); Agents of Impact (2025)
Event Details
Format
Online
Date/Time
October 8, 2026
7.00pm - 8.30pm ICT
(Thailand Time)
Participation Fee
Individual
USD 155 per participant
Participation Fee
Group of 3 or more
USD 145 per participant
Registration Form
Register by September 18, 2026