Teaching Lessons from Finland
In this presentation, Pasi Sahlberg argues that just having better teachers in schools will not automatically improve students learning outcomes. Lessons from Finland and other high-performing school systems suggest that we should also protect schools from prescribed teaching, toxic accountability, and unhealthy competition, so that all teachers can use their professional knowledge and skills in […]
From Technology Consumers to Change Makers
The digital age we live in dictates that educators provide students with the opportunity to learn to code. Coding is a significant skill because it allows you to explore and experience the digital world in its entirety. Learning computer science will benefit students in their future career or life path, as every field has some connection to computer […]
WISE Survey: “School in 2030“
Are teachers obsolete? Will online content make traditional brick-and-mortar schools a thing of the past? Will there be one global education language? Should school focus on personal skills rather than academic knowledge? Will company certification be on a par with diplomas? These are some of the issues tackled by the 2014 WISE Survey: School in […]
Cultivating Creative-Mindedness
Professor Guy Claxton will be speaking at the 2014 WISE Summit. When people talk about education, they often focus on two dimensions. One is: What shall we teach children? The other is: How will we know if they’ve learned it? Curriculum and Assessment. These dominate educational debate worldwide. But there is another dimension, less obvious but […]
Dr. Hans Rosling – Make Teaching Fun
Dr. Hans Rosling, an edutainer and CEO, Gapminder Foundation, says learning is more effective when teachers make it fun. For Dr. Rosling, technology cannot replace teachers but it can help them to make learning fun and engaging.
Creativity: An Essential Component in STEM Learning
If having innovative adults is a goal, then it is important to have creativity as an essential component in the education of young people. Innovation is “all about ideas.” Encouraging creative thinking in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) must begin early and remain a central emphasis throughout schooling, so it becomes the natural way […]
A Teacher’s Life in the 21st Century
I remember when I started studying to become a teacher I thought; “I want to make a difference. I do not want to become one of those teachers that I had when I was young. A boring, burned out, old fashioned teacher that didn’t have a clue on what was going on in young peoples’ lives.“ […]
Dr. Patrinos: “School Vouchers Can Help Improve Education Systems”
As the demand for education increases, resources remain scarce. In most countries, the government is both the major financier as well as the provider of education. However, schooling still does not reach all members of society equally. The public sector, unlike the government does not necessarily need to promote and finance education. Therefore, in some […]
It’s the Examination System That’s Obsolete
Teachers Need to be Free to Enable New Kinds of Learning The teaching profession as we know it is obsolete because it caters to an examination system that was created to serve the needs of another time. Most national curricula for children consist of outdated norms from the last century. These include excessive emphasis on […]
Josephine Bourne: Who Is Out of School and Why?
There are 57 million children out of school – over half will go to school at some point. Approximately 28 million children will have no access to school. But the rest – the majority by a small margin, have had, or are likely to have some exposure to schooling. They are the children who start […]