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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]