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Learning Ecosystems and Leadership

3 Ways Young Women are Transforming a Continent

  By 2100, the global population is forecast to stand at over 11 billion1, and 4 billion of that number could be Africans2. The current population of sub-Saharan Africa is already well over 1 billion3, with an estimated median age of 194. This youth bulge, caused as child mortality rates fall but birth rates remain […]

May 4, 2018
Dolores Dickson
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Life Skills

To Fix Youth Unemployment in Africa, We Need to Build Skills in the Informal Sector

  Unemployment is a silent trauma forging the common experience of my generation, and we are failing to create the conditions to change this reality. Instead, we are confined to a narrative of formal education and formal employment while our reality in Africa is overwhelmingly informal employment. Just like the mustard seed, informal employment grows […]

May 4, 2018
Carl Manlan
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Access and Inclusion

From Local Program to Global Network: How to Create a Professional Learning Community

During my PhD defense one of the examiners asked me what I would do after my PhD. My answer was that I would go back to Qatar and work with my scholarship provider, Qatar Foundation, to improve schools in Qatar. My PhD isn’t the magic wand to fix our education system however, I do believe […]

May 2, 2018
Asmaa Al-Fadala
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Life Skills

Nurturing Young Citizens’ Creativity in Media Use

  We are living in a complex world where the rapid technological development of recent decades has brought major changes and challenges. One of the most important of these is the increasing mediatization of our lives: the media is ubiquitous and dominant in our everyday lives. Thanks to the internet, all-powerful companies like Google, Facebook, […]

April 27, 2018
Dr. Susanne Eggert
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Access and Inclusion

Changing Current Paradigms of Media Education

Media literacy is now called upon to cope with the insidious and sometimes disturbing media phenomena: fake news, hidden algorithms, conspiracy theories, cyberbullying, problematic uses of social media and video games, digital divides, privacy protection, etc. This list is not exhaustive but highlights some issues that many initiatives set out to tackle in the spheres […]

April 26, 2018
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Access and Inclusion

The Second Digital Divide: Privileged Usage of Educational Technologies

    Teachers have used signals technology – radio, film, television, computers, internet, mobile devices, and more – in classrooms for over a century. Researchers have investigated these cycles, both contemporaneously and in retrospect, and two important patterns stand out. First, when teachers have access to new technologies, they primarily use them to extend existing […]

April 25, 2018
Dr. Justin Reich
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Access and Inclusion

Urban Brand-Utility: Making Advertising Educate and Contribute Towards a Sustainable Future

Not all learning is formal, via classrooms or online modules. Therefore, taking a broader view about education is a way to empower teachers, students, and society. With that in mind, when considering that most of us are part of a capitalist system, one can easily assume that advertising has by-and-large educated the masses to believe […]

April 24, 2018
Mr. Sergio Brodsky
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Harnessing Technology to Bridge Gaps in Education

  On 18 April 2018, a special painting workshop given by Yang Songshou, a famous Chinese painter, went online and attracted thousands of rural students to learn at the same time via the Internet. In this featured event of Shanghai EduExpo 2018, Yang was invited by Hu+ Project, an educational charity program initiated by Hujiang […]

April 23, 2018
Mr. Arnold (Cairui) Fu
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Access and Inclusion

Autism and the Future of Education

  In learning about autism in education, have you ever found yourself listening to a panel with no one that is autistic? What about seeing education policies and practices implemented without input from disabled (including autistic) students? And then there is the odd opinion piece, although well-intentioned, leaves out views from the autistic community on […]

April 23, 2018
Dr. Damian Milton
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World of Work

Bringing the World to Learning

  The development of the global economy and the transition to knowledge economies has strengthened the significance of education. Preparing students, through education as a means of social investment, is critical to advancement in the global economy. Specifically, the cultivation of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) competencies is imperative in the development of the […]

April 23, 2018
Kiley Adolph
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Learning and Behavioural Sciences

Using Data to Drive Outcomes in Education: Getting the Right ‘Recipe’

  Data has become a bit of a dirty word given the recent exposé of how social media platforms vacuum up your interactions and the ‘less then beneficial’ ways these insights can be used! Big data has never had an easy ride in the education world especially given education’s often slow adoption of technology driven […]

April 13, 2018
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Learning and Behavioural Sciences

How the Blockchain Can Help Us Trust Each Other (Again)

  He who does not trust enough, will not be trusted. – Lao Tzu Trust is important. Especially in business. Think about it. A lot of great companies would not have been around today if their founders did not have trust. First they needed to have the trust in themselves to take the entrepreneurial leap. […]

March 28, 2018
Aldo de Pape

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