Mobilizing Communities to Educate Girls
From attitudes and tradition to poverty and lack of infrastructure, communities are often seen as the biggest barrier to girls’ education. But those same communities can act as the primary agents of change in addressing these barriers, and ultimately, improve education outcomes for out-of-school girls. This presentation highlighted the challenges of working in communities where […]
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, […]
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 […]
How MOOCs Are Redefining the Role of Teachers
“MOOCs are designed in a such a way that they allow students to be peer instructors,” says Dr. George Siemens, an academic and leading researcher on learning. MOOCs have also changed the relationship between teacher, content and students. Technology allows students to access learning content anywhere. For Dr. Siemens, teachers need to focus more on […]
Educate a Girl, Empower a Woman
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Rt. Hon. Gordon Brown: “We should be marching for Education for All”
At WISE 2011, Former UK Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, makes an impassioned plea to strive to achieve Millennium Development Goal 2, Education for Alm, by 2015, because it is a goal that unlocks opportunity in every area of human life, bringing prosperity, freedom, equality and dignity. He calls for the creation of a global fund for […]
WISE Prize Laureate, Sir Fazle Hasan Abed: “BRAC has used education as one of the central themes in addressing inequity.”
Kirsty Lang, Master of Ceremonies, welcomes the WISE Prize Laureate, Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, Founder of BRAC. The Laureate describes BRAC’s early years and the growth of its programs over time. BRAC, has grown in four decades to now reach 140 million people in nine countries. He stresses that “education is the fundamental catalyst for […]
Ms. Josephine Green: It’s Time to Change – Really, Deeply, Truly
Josephine Green specializes in social foresight, innovation and change and is former Senior Director of Trends and Strategy at Philips Design, Philips, The Netherlands. Ms. Green participated in the WISE 2011 Debate on Developing New Approaches to Leadership. As part of its month-long focus on girls and women, WISE invited Ms. Green to write a guest […]
Steve Huggett: “It is very important to be flexible in the way that the curriculum is taught”
According to a report by the Autism Education Trust (AET) in the United Kingdom, “pupils with autism have ambitious goals in life and they must be supported to achieve them, alongside their peers.” On World Autism Awarenesss Day (April 02), we interviewed Steve Huggett, Director of the Autism Education Trust and the organisation’s Project Manager Sarah-Jane Critchley to look at what […]
Stephen Harris: “Redesigning Spaces Around Collaborative Teaching”
There is a clear movement occurring in education globally right now – a movement that is seeking to shift the epicentre of educational paradigms from an industrial-era experience to something more relevant to the ever changing and dynamic contexts of the 21st century. In the first decade of this new century, much great work has been […]