Charismatic leaders
This term describes a leader’s ability to inspire devotion through charm, confidence, and vision.
What is charisma?
This is the term for machines simulating human thinking and decision-making.
What is artificial intelligence (AI)?
This term refers to strong loyalty to your nation, sometimes at the expense of others.
What is nationalism?
This 14th-century pandemic killed millions and changed European societies forever.
What is the Black Death (or the Bubonic Plague)?
This acronym is used in MYP to describe key skills like thinking, research, and communication.
What is ATL (Approaches to Learning)?
Though not a political leader, this Mexican artist is remembered for her distinctive self-portraits and charismatic presence, which turned her into a symbol of resilience, identity, and feminist expression.
Who is Frida Kahlo?
This job sector is least likely to be replaced by AI due to its emphasis on empathy and human connection.
What is caregiving/healthcare/social work?
The idea that certain stories, holidays, or heroes are used to unite a nation is an example of this kind of narrative.
What is a founding myth (or national narrative)?
This natural event devastated Haiti in 2010, revealing deep inequalities in global disaster response.
What is an earthquake?
This visible thinking routine illustrates the relationships between different concepts, ideas, or information.
What is a concept map / concept mapping?
Hannah Arendt coined this phrase to describe how ordinary people can commit evil through thoughtless compliance.
What is the banality of evil?
This acronym describes the mix of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math jobs that are in high demand in future economies.
What is STEM?
This leader delivered the “City upon a Hill” sermon, highlighting Puritan ideals in colonial America.
Who is John Winthrop?
The fall of this empire was partly due to its overexpansion, diverse population, and poor resource management.
What is the Roman Empire?
This empire once stretched across three continents and was known for its religious tolerance and architecture.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This 20th-century American civil rights leader used charisma to inspire nonviolent protest.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This skill, essential in the age of automation, involves solving problems in novel ways.
What is creative thinking?
In Apartheid South Africa, this term was used to designate separate regions for Black South Africans.
What are homelands?
This 1986 nuclear disaster became a turning point in global views on energy safety.
What is Chernobyl?
This term means the ability to move between cultural worlds, and is a vital skill in diverse, global societies.
What is intercultural competence (or code-switching)?
Charisma can be used for evil when leaders manipulate fear and create an “us vs. them” mentality. This is often referred to as this type of charisma.
What is negative charisma?
This term refers to jobs that don’t exist yet but will emerge due to technological and social change.
What are future careers (or emerging jobs)?
This Enlightenment philosopher’s idea of a “social contract” helped shape ideas of citizenship and national belonging.
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
Eyam, a small English village, made history by doing this to prevent the spread of plague.
What is self-quarantine?
This phrase describes societies that look perfect on the outside but are deeply flawed underneath.
What is dystopia masked as utopia?