COVID-19 and the Third Sector with Nayla Al Fahed and Mike Dawson
COVID-19 continues to affect many systems and societies around the world. Many charities and NGOs are facing challenges in providing their services through the global pandemic, yet many continue to persevere and bring aid and learning to those in need. We’re joined by Nayla Al Fahed from Lebanese Alternative Learning (LAL), and Mike Dawson from […]
China’s Shift to Online Learning with Berlin Fang
Education Columnist and Director of Instructional Design at Abilene Christian University, Berlin Fang joins us to discuss China’s shift to online learning and how it has evolved compared to other places that have made the jump around the world. Berlin’s major interests are faculty acceptance of educational technology, the diffusion of innovation, managed change, […]
Personalized Adaptive Learning Technologies with Claudio Sassaki
Co-Founder of Brazilian edtech startup, Geekie, Claudio Sassaki joins us to discuss how schools in Brazil have been utilizing personalized adaptive learning technologies in a bid to keep learners active from home. He has been recognized by Wired UK as one of the most important social innovators of the world and awarded by Schwab […]
Preparing Students For Change with Kiran Bir Sethi
We’re joined by Kiran Bir Sethi, the founder of Design For Change which is the world’s largest movement for change of and by children, operating in 44 countries and impacting millions of students and teachers. She is also the Director of the celebrated Riverside School in Ahmedabad, India. Kiran is a designer who became a […]
Edtech Frontlines – The Case of Latin America with Agustín Thienen
“This COVID-19, to make an analogy, would be like waking from a dream. The first 2 minutes, you remember it really vividly, but if you don’t talk to someone or you don’t write it down, then you forget it quite immediately. I won’t ever choose to go through this, but as it is happening, we […]
How Schools Can Plan For The New Normal with William Zhou
We’re joined by William Zhou, CEO of Chalk, a versatile planning and analytics platform tailored to the K-12 curriculum and designed to help support teachers and schools stay online and on-track. Five years ago, William was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 list in education. Back then, there were about 100,000 users using the […]
COVID-19 – An Education Response with Fernando Reimers and Andreas Schleicher
One of the key questions we’re still looking to answer is how we can best support education decision making to ensure an effective education response to the COVID-19 pandemic. A framework to guide and education response to the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 is a new report that was recently released to help guide education […]
How Schools Can Adapt to Remote Learning with Aparna Ramanathan
“The one silver lining that has come out of the COVID19 pandemic in education is that there’s now a shift in truly considering the whole child.” Aparna Ramanathan of AskMyClass joins WISE Words to discuss how schools can adapt to remote learning. As students continue learning from a distance, we must consider if […]
Training Teachers From a Distance with Aldo de Pape
Like in many other industries, education practitioners and students around the world have been jumping into digital platforms as a means to continue operating amid the crisis. A remote-powered world draws many challenges into question. Issues concerning ease-of-use, accessibility, and privacy and security are some that teachers are continuing to grapple with. In an […]
What Do Young People Want From Their Education?
Nine out of ten young adults feel that they have a responsibility to better the world – yet not even half of those 9 people feel equipped to take action towards this goal. This is according to some of the latest findings of an extensive research survey that was released by WISE recently for the International […]