Video Games, Metacognition, and Learning: Lessons for Your Classroom
For many people, the image of teenagers clutching game controllers and staring at screens is troubling. However, it is not necessarily the fact that young people fill their idle time with playful entertainment that concerns adults. Instead, there is something disconcerting about the amount of focused energy that players dedicate to understanding and mastering the […]
Bridging the Digital and Knowledge Gap in Rural Communities through Mobile Learning
In this digital era, characterized by the rapid development of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), illiterate people are at greater risk than ever. Those with less education will find it increasingly difficult to participate in developing knowledge-based societies, thus increasing social division and the digital and knowledge divide (Reimers, 2000). Without an innovative intervention to […]
Perspectives on Learning Games and Engagement
Dr. Kari Stubbs from BrainPOP shares her views on the benefits of using learning games to engage students. Dr. Stubbs will be speaking at the 2014 WISE Summit Having taught 11 years in the classroom, I know first-hand that student engagement is at the core of learning. The ultimate challenge for a teacher is to engage a […]
Turning School Upside Down With Personalized Learning
2013 WISE Summit Spotlight by Bilal Musharraf, Khan Academy Today, each child is struggling with unique gaps in their comprehension of content but the Internet is making it possible to scale differentiated learning and teaching. Students at both ends of the spectrum, those struggling and those excelling, can be engaged at their individual levels of […]
Building Online Communities to Boost MOOCs in China
In China, the completion rate of MOOCs is not more than five percent even though most courses offer access to high-quality content. Dr. Yang Liu, Director of Education at Guokr in China, explains how her organization found a way to strengthen learners’ engagement and interest in the courses. They created MOOC Academy, an online community […]
Jorn West Larsen: “A learning environment that helps children’s learning styles”
If the school of the future is a place with few walls, then it already exists – at the Hellerup School in the Gentofle Municipality near Copenhagen. This modern public school, built on a former factory site, is a spacious, progressive learning space for up to 750 students and 65 teachers and assistants. The unique […]
Prof. John Traxler: Potential of Learning with Mobiles in Africa
Using mobile devices to deliver learning in Africa is obvious and ought to be successful. The reasons are easy to identify and include near-universal ownership and access to simple mobile phones, and comprehensive, energetic and competitive mobile networks. Furthermore, other technology options that might deliver learning are practically non-existent owing to poor infrastructure including unstable […]
Dr. Khalifa: “Matching Skills to the Job Market Better is Crucial”
The Spotlight focused on how to provide youth with skills that are relevant to the marketplace by investing in education, engaging stakeholders, and enabling solutions so that Arab youth earn a better future.
Commissioner Vassiliou: “We Need to Prepare Ourselves for the Global Competition in Education”
Androulla Vassiliou, European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth, discusses the importance of closer collaboration between universities and businesses to lower youth unemployment. Watch this interview to find out about the role of culture and creativity in education and the need for globalized education in Europe to face growing global competition in education.
The Future of Learning: Making Children in Charge
Schools need to please parents. If they don’t, parents won’t send their children to school. So schools try to create what parents want: children who grow up into happy people, marry the kind of people their parents want, produce wonderful grandchildren and, in general, live a happy life. Schools need to please the Government as […]