Innovative Education: the Path to Modern Citizenship in the Arab World
It is a well known fact that the pivotal challenge in today’s Arab world is how to ensure an efficient education which will be able to provide students with varied technical and intellectual skills such as critical thinking, ability to synthesize, ICT competences, entrepreneurship and, at the same time, foster an innovative culture including modern […]
Why Is Education the Key to Peace and Prosperity?
The new world economic order is characterized by a knowledge-based economic system, the rapid pace of technological changes, and the globalization of markets. These characteristics have made human capital the main determinant of the competiveness of companies and countries; they have opened new opportunities for countries with limited natural resources. In addition, they enable young entrepreneurs […]
Creativity: the Key to Unlocking the Potential of EdTech
Whenever I get a new device, be it a phone, tablet or notebook, I spend the first few hours customising every setting possible and a few things that probably shouldn’t be customisable! For me “accepting the default setting” is an anathema. That device has to reflect me, my needs and priorities. Leaving anything on factory […]
Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives: the Best Way to Tackle Education Quality?
This article is part of a series on innovative solutions to tackle the main challenges of Latin American education (part 6 of 7). Across Latin America, there is broad agreement on the region’s education challenges. Everyone from corporations to unions point to poor early childhood development, high school dropout rates, worryingly low student performance even as enrollment rises, reduced […]
EdTech Solutions – Don’t Forget the Warmware!
When it comes to technology most people are captivated by having the latest, quickest or highest spec model. Unfortunately this pervasive mindset has permeated the EdTech world too! From Governments, to Districts to schools the focus is usually on acquiring the best ‘hardware’ or the newest ‘software’. However very little thought is given to developing […]
Three Education Conferences that Have Helped Me Grow
Diana Al-Dajani, founder and CEO of the Arabic learning portal eduTechnoz, shares her takeaways from three conferences that have helped her grow, both professionally and personally. EdTech Europe 2015 I remember I was very excited and apprehensive that I was the only one in the conference who was teaching Arabic – most of the EdTech projects […]
Three Things Governments Should Do to Close the Global Skills Gap
No generation in history has ever had the opportunity to radically enhance global economic equality for every individual on earth. It is, however, our gift, if we are willing to grasp it. The gift I speak of is the ability of our civilisation to educate everyone across the world online, from early adulthood, to a […]
Tearing Down the Classroom Walls
This article is part of a special interview series featuring global innovators in education (part 4 of 5). Visit WISE ed.review regularly to read the upcoming articles. “I have a vision where companies, public sector entities, libraries, museums and more have a Skype Pod near their open spaces where employees or volunteers can connect with children around […]
Utilizing the Power of Human Rights Education
Each year on December 10th we celebrate International Human Rights Day where we commemorate the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), which outlined a blueprint for societies built on principals of equality, dignity and non- discrimination. Although not legally binding, its core values inspired an array of human rights instruments, primarily the […]
Classroom of the Future: Leveling the Playing Field for All Learners
This article is part of a special interview series featuring global innovators in education (part 3 of 5). Visit WISE ed.review regularly to read the upcoming articles. “Each time we hit the publish button—three times a week—we marvel at the internet’s ability to consistently propel a master teacher’s reach from thirty students in a classroom to several […]