Educating for Well-being: The Need for Systemic Socio-Emotional Learning and Motion Leadership
The COVID-19 pandemic has made evident the need for systemic social and emotional education, for children, teens, and adults. Mental and emotional problems like distraction, depression and suicide, loneliness, and a lack of purpose that were already affecting people’s minds and health, are increasing. We lack strategies to deal with them personally, in education, and […]
Online Teaching 2.0: Reimagining What We Know
The global pandemic has pushed educators around the world to a transformative moment for online learning. Since February 2020, an unprecedented number of teachers, students, and parents have become exposed to a new mode of teaching. Teachers did not have the luxury of options, as online education came towards them, shouting “Ready or not, here […]
Why Impact Research Is Important in EdTech
In 2012 I taught a 5th-grade class in a Finnish public school. During a mathematics lesson, we were doing a project about fractions and one group was creating a presentation about note lengths in music. I helped them to use the Garage Band music application to explore the topic and sent them to work in […]
World Refugee Day: Reaching Children in Crisis
Teresa Wolverton is part of the WISE Emerging Leaders cohort of 2020. Her work with Sesame Workshop, the non-profit organization behind Sesame Street, illustrates the importance of reaching refugee children with early childhood education. Today, on World Refugee Day, she reflects on how this year’s theme, ‘Every Action Counts’ relates to the educational needs of children. 1. What is […]
Education’s Role in Eliminating Racism
Note: This article was originally published on Asia Society (link) Police brutality in black communities is nothing new. As a young black man growing up in 1970’s Los Angeles, I felt the mix of panic and outrage when those blue lights went on. I knew I had done nothing wrong – but I also knew that […]
Changing the EdTech Narrative Among Schools and Teachers
Edward Keller is the co-founder of SmartScience Lab, a California-based EdTech startup that provides students and teachers with the opportunity to learn STEM through virtual labs. Due to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, SmartScience Lab experienced a surge in demand from teachers and schools. We asked Edward to share with us what the potential […]
Three Ways Technology Can Improve Student Learning
We have witnessed an unprecedented scale and intensity of disruptions to teaching practices in the last five months. Many teachers who had limited opportunities for training and guidance had to bring their classes online almost overnight. As a teacher, you may now feel ready to shut down your laptop and walk away from your desk […]
Global Day of Parents: Celebrating our Community-level Activists
A child’s first teacher is, almost always, a parent or carer. Parents are central in the development of a child’s social, moral, and cultural learning journey. Today, on Global Day of Parents, we celebrate parents worldwide, and recognize their role as activists within local communities, especially during a time of crisis. When United World Schools (UWS) […]
Lessons Learned from China: Bridging the Digital Divide During COVID-19
The future of learning is here before we know it. The COVID-19 social distancing measures resulted in many education systems having to shut down their facilities and move learning and instruction online. While a three-way blend of technology, internet, and education presents an enormous opportunity for education systems to embrace the future, there is a […]
‘Education cannot just go back to business as usual after COVID-19’ – QF educator
‘Virtual’ international conference by QF’s WISE analyzes what coronavirus may mean for the future of education. Global education will not be able to return to “business as usual” in a post-coronavirus world, and must take the opportunity that the crisis has offered to rethink and reshape itself, a Qatar Foundation educator has told an international […]