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Life Skills

High Hopes and Empty Debates

It is often said that we live in declining societies, that there is concern for their future. It therefore comes as no surprise that we, particularly we here in France, love to debate and argue about education, whose role is precisely to prepare our children for the world of tomorrow. The matters in dispute are […]

February 21, 2019
Chloé Morin
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Emerging Technologies and Edtech

AI is a Tool that Empowers Parents and Students

Introduction With the rise of Artificial Intelligence and the maturation of digital technologies, we are at the dawn of a new era. We are living a historical moment, facing daunting challenges with a profound mutation of the way we live, work and exist as a society. We are still unaware of the long-term effects of […]

February 15, 2019
Mr. Borna Scognamiglio
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Learning and Behavioural Sciences

Educating to Fight Climate Change

Climate change is here. It is no longer looming on the horizon, it is no longer imminent, it is already happening. The inertia of the climate system implies that climate change will continue for a period after mitigation actions are implemented. In 1980, the United Nations established the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) to […]

February 14, 2019
David Wilgenbus
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Emerging Technologies and Edtech

How Can the EdTech Industry Effectively Develop Innovations in Education?

Mass education is necessary but the one-size-fits-all approach usually attached to it is outdated. To be very fair, mass education when it was first put into place, was a revolution. The idea of providing for no cost basic literacy skills to pupils regardless of their social status has changed the course of human history entirely […]

February 11, 2019
Svenia Busson
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Life Skills

The Case for the Online Mentorship Movement

In 2017, Mehedi Hasan moved from Bangladesh to Germany to study at a university there. After two semesters, juggling work and school became almost impossible. He left and enrolled in a front-end developer program with an online learning platform. When Mehedi’s father got sick, he rushed back home to Bangladesh and set his program aside. […]

February 8, 2019
Pierre Dubuc
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Life Skills

What Governments Can Learn From Innovation in Education

It is yesterday’s news that technology is evolving at an exponential rate and we are now just barely beginning to grasp the possible implications of what that can mean for humanity. Life on our planet is facing many challenges that require major transformations in the way we live together on it, from environmental regulation to […]

February 8, 2019
Alice Bourassin
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Life Skills

The Impact of “Shedding a Light” on Education

  “Our community did not know what the electricity was. We did not know what a child could handle at school. Now, they know how a computer operates”. That is what a leader of a Colombian rural community of Tunay answered when he was asked about how the Lights to Learn (LtL) program affected their lives. He […]

January 14, 2019
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Access and Inclusion

Why Having Safe Spaces for Girls Works

Naja’atu Muhammed is a 16-year-old girl from the Anguwan Malamai community of Kaduna State in Nigeria. Naja’atu was forced into early marriage by her father and was eventually cut off from both Islamic and Western education due to poverty. Naja’atu’s meals were rationed and her financial demise resulted in starvation and depression. Stories such as […]

January 6, 2019
Ms Habiba Mohammed
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Learning and Behavioural Sciences

Youth are Africa’s Untapped Resource for Change

If you’ve ever passed through downtown Kampala, you’ll know the scene: a crowded street, honking cars dodging potholes, street vendors dodging cars, goats, chickens, and above all – lots and lots of people. Lately, whenever I find myself here or in another major African city, I’ve tried to make a conscious effort to pause and […]

January 6, 2019
Mr. Boris Bulayev
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Access and Inclusion

Making Deaf Education Accessible and Inclusive

Deaf education is a fundamental right for every deaf child. In Pakistan, there are over one million deaf children but less than 5% of those children have access to education. Availability of and access to sign language – the native language of the Deaf community – is a critical component of every deaf person’s cognitive, […]

January 6, 2019
Mr. Richard Geary Horwitz
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Life Skills

Building a Successful Youth Employment Program

Yvonne is a young Kenyan woman. As an orphan, she moved in with her sister after completing high school and spent three years searching for a job. “I was feeling like an outcast in the society,” she says. Unfortunately, she’s not alone. There are 75 million unemployed young people globally, and three times as many […]

January 6, 2019
Mona Mourshed
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Access and Inclusion

How Should Schools Incorporate Happiness Into Curricula?

In a previous piece, I discussed the role of happiness as one of the purposes of education and argued that we can learn how to improve our well being. Even though it is not possible to teach how to be happy in a prescriptive way, research has found patterns that show the influence on how we […]

December 11, 2018

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