Promoting Social Media Wellness in a Digitally Disrupted World
Keeping kids socially, emotionally and physically safe online and in real life seems to be a daunting and relentless task. Over the past decade, just as one challenge is solved in our ever-changing digital world, two or three others tend to pop up. In my two decades of work with students on executive functioning skills […]
An International Movement Calls for Greater Investment in School Leaders
This article was originally published on NYC Leadership Academy. While schools in Nairobi face different challenges from schools in Hong Kong or India or the U.S., there is increasing agreement across contexts that to transform schools, you need great school leaders. An international movement is growing to increase and improve school leadership by calling for more […]
How We Can Use Brain Science to Inform Educational Innovation
First: Understand how relationships matter (This essay is adapted from The Brain Basis for Integrated Social, Emotional and Academic Development (SEAD): How Emotions and Social Relationships Drive Learning. By Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, Linda Darling-Hammond and Christina Krone. Published by the Aspen Institute National Commission on Social, Emotional and Academic Development.) Throughout life, and to an extraordinary […]
The Power of Comics to Build Resilience
Did you know that Superman, one of the most iconic heroes, is a refugee? His parents sent him to Earth as a baby when his home planet Krypton was destroyed. He was raised up by a kind couple living on a farm in Kansas. The acclaimed graphic novel, Persepolis, discusses the challenges of leaving your […]
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Learning in Language Learning
As language learning makes a sea change to online, users will come to expect personalized learning experiences. China’s AI-powered online education market alone reached $568 million in 2017 and is expected to surpass $26 billion in 2022. At Sana Labs, we build AI technologies to power these learning experiences through easy to integrate APIs. This means that […]
A Framework for Bridging the Education Divide in India
The advancements in technology have been instrumental in revolutionizing education across the world, raising literacy rates, lifting millions out of poverty and providing them with better job opportunities. While transformational this phenomenon has largely benefitted the developed economies with advanced infrastructure. The majority of the developing and under-developed countries with large rural populations lack robust […]
Providing Access to Early Education in Rural China
The One Village One Preschool Program by the China Development Research Foundation (CDRF) provides quality preschool services for rural and impoverished children. Six year old You Haoyu is a child in Muwa Village, of Dayin Town, in Guizhou province. Both of his parents are working in urban areas, leaving him behind to stay with his […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]