Shakira: Education Is the Keystone to Transform Communities
Shakira founded Fundación Pies Descalzos in 1997. Find out how her organization provides access to early childhood education and empowers older learners, also including parents and the wide community. For Shakira, it is crucial to collaborate with global initiatives like WISE to share best practices and boost change in education on a broader scale.
Dr. Hans Rosling – Make Teaching Fun
Dr. Hans Rosling, an edutainer and CEO, Gapminder Foundation, says learning is more effective when teachers make it fun. For Dr. Rosling, technology cannot replace teachers but it can help them to make learning fun and engaging.
Alice Albright “We can’t afford not to invest in education”
To some, the billions of dollars in aid the international community spends to improve education in developing countries seems like a staggeringly expensive commitment of resources, even when spread over millions of children who benefit from this critical support for many years ahead. But from a different perspective, it’s quite an economical investment, much less […]
MOOCs, Mobile, and the Future of Higher Education
In 2025 and beyond we will use mobile, digital technology to learn. The classroom will be in our hands. We will have access to knowledge, lessons, and learning technology anywhere, anytime. We will learn in the moment. Our learning will include immersive, multi-sensory experiences that simulate reality. Artificial intelligence will fine-tune learning to fit each […]
The Five Big Ideas for Higher Education in 2025
I recently returned from the Education Innovation Summit at Arizona State University, an annual gathering known as “Davos in the Desert,” that brings together some 2,000 entrepreneurs, investors, and policymakers from around the word. This was my fourth year at the event, and this time there was a sense among some of the veterans of […]
Madiba’s Passion for Education
Nelson Mandela, the first President of democratic South Africa, was detained in prison for twenty-seven years, one of the world’s longest-detained political prisoners. His release from prison began the most remarkable political transition any country has ever known. His leadership of the African National Congress set in place a unique process of forgiveness and reconciliation, […]
Reinvent Learning With Technology, Curriculum of Curiosity – Sugata Mitra
In this exclusive interview with WISE, Prof. Sugata Mitra shares his experience on the use of educational technology, especially tablets, to improve learners engagement and outcomes in the classroom. To reinvent learning, Prof. Mitra says education should be driven by a curriculum of curiosity and not by a curriculum of becoming somebody.
Big Data: Dispelling Myths About Global Education
Data need to tell a story. In this Focus presentation, Hans Rosling helped make sense of complex trends in education and progress toward universal literacy and numeracy. What do these data tell us about our successes and ongoing challenges?
Play: Rethinking the Design of Teaching and Learning
Teaching and learning practices are transforming through an approach integrating traditional and 21st-century literacies with core principles of game design and play. Quest to Learn, a public middle school in New York, has become a vital research and development platform for such innovative curriculum and teaching practices. At WISE 2013, Katie Salen from the Institute […]
Big Data: Who Really Benefits?
Several years ago, my mother gave me a large manilla envelope full of my old schoolwork — drawings and writings and photos from as far back as preschool — some projects I remembered making, many I didn’t. Mostly the envelope contained administrative records — my report cards, various certificates of accomplishment, some ribbons. That envelope […]