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The Knowledge Revolution ✦ Progress JournalIssue Nº 10 · Updated 9 October 2026

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Our Challenge Based Learning journey, written week by week — from a big idea to a real solution. Posts, meetings and behind the scenes, all in one place.

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Project9 October 2026· 2 min read

Trust by Design: The Law and Ethics of a Digital Professor

A professor's face and voice are biometric data, and emotion recognition is banned in schools. Here are the rules our avatars will follow.

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12 entries

  1. Now · Investigate phase under way

  2. Week of 5–11 Oct
  3. 9Oct
    A glowing shield with a gold check mark at its centre, surrounded by small points of light.Project

    2 min read · #investigate #ethics #ai-act

    Trust by Design: The Law and Ethics of a Digital Professor

    A professor's face and voice are biometric data, and emotion recognition is banned in schools. Here are the rules our avatars will follow.

    Read the post →
  4. 8Oct
    A grid of dots in cyan, gold and orange, like a coverage matrix where no row is fully filled.AI

    2 min read · #investigate #tools #avatars

    We Tested AI Tutors and Avatar Tools — None Covers Everything

    Quizlet, Khan Academy, Canvas, Synthesia, D-ID, Tavus, HeyGen: what each one does well — and what none of them does.

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  5. 6Oct
    A wireframe globe with six coloured nodes connected around a person icon — one node per part of our Investigate report.CBL

    3 min read · #investigate #cbl #research

    Investigate Phase: What Our Research Revealed

    Six parts, 97 pages, one conclusion: the technology already exists — what is missing is the educational layer on top of it.

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  6. Week of 28 Sept – 4 Oct
  7. 29Sept
    Illustration of students learning on laptops around a large screen, surrounded by flying books and a graduation cap.CBL

    1 min read · #engage #cbl #knowledge-revolution

    Engage Phase: The Challenge Is Set

    We presented the Engage phase of our Deep Learning project: our Big Idea, our Essential Question and our Challenge.

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  8. Week of 21–27 Sept
  9. 27Sept
    At night, a student on a sofa talks with a holographic teacher projected from a tablet.Engage

    1 min read · #community #philosophy #avatars

    What If You Could Ask a Philosopher a Question at 2 a.m.?

    It's late, you can't sleep, and a question won't leave you alone. Who would you ask? Tell us in the comments.

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  10. 25Sept
    A student at a laptop looks at a glowing question mark and a globe, surrounded by video portraits of teachers.Educate

    1 min read · #quote #philosophy #learning

    The Mind Is Not a Vessel to Be Filled

    Almost 2,000 years ago, Plutarch already knew what good learning feels like. His idea is at the heart of our project.

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  11. 24Sept
    Books on a desk next to a laptop, with icons of learning and a digital brain.Educate

    1 min read · #history #did-you-know #universities

    Did You Know? 859

    The oldest existing university in the world was founded in 859 — by a woman, in Fez, Morocco.

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  12. 23Sept

    Meeting minutes

    Second meeting — Planning the Engage presentation

    We built the plan of our Engage phase presentation: from the students' problem to our Challenge.

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  13. 21Sept
    Black and white group photo of the six FBAI's team members.Behind the Scenes

    1 min read · #journal #team #engage

    Project Journal — Week 01

    Building the project, step by step: what we did during our first week, and what comes next.

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  14. Week of 14–20 Sept
  15. 19Sept
    A glowing globe rising from an open book, surrounded by icons of learning.Educate

    1 min read · #history #education #knowledge-revolution

    The Revolutions of Knowledge

    From writing to AI: a short story of how humanity learned to learn — and why we think the next revolution has already started.

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  16. 18Sept
    A student with headphones learning face to face with a teacher on a laptop, next to the text of our Challenge.Project

    1 min read · #vision #avatars #knowledge-revolution

    Learning Without Walls

    What if the classroom had no walls, no timetable and no language barrier? Our project in four ideas.

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  17. 16Sept

    Meeting minutes

    First meeting — Brainstorming for the Engage phase

    Our very first meeting: brainstorming the Big Idea, the Essential Question and the Challenge of our Engage phase.

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  18. Where it all began · 16 September 2026