We Can Overcome All Our Global Challenges if We are Willing to Build and Scale New Models for Lifelong Learning
The OECD’s Learning Compass 2030, launched today, urges nations to take action and reevaluate the knowledge, life skills, values and attitudes learners need to flourish and contribute to the well-being of their communities and their planet. Experts have argued that global education systems have not changed in hundreds of years and that a factory model no longer works. Whether we’re talking about the 265 million children...
The Global Search for Education: Teaching Literacy – What Students Might Learn from Play
“We use play because play is learning.” – Catalina Gonzalez Catalina González, founder and director of Literacy4all begins her story in Colombia. A young school teacher, Javier González-Quintero, was asked to send report cards for his students to their parents. Javier decided this would not work since very few of the children’s parents were able to read and write. So, he decided instead to meet with the parents in...
The Global Search for Education: From North Macedonia – Let’s Get Digital
” Our planet needs every one of us to take an active part in this transformative process.” – Pero Sardzoski The Pegasus English Language School, located in Tetovo, North Macedonia, was founded in 2002. According to the school’s Director of Studies, Pero Sardzoski, the original goal was to create a “peace project” focused on overcoming the conflict between two ethnic communities (the Macedonians and the Albanians)...
The Global Search for Education: How Employers Help Children Design their Futures
Understanding the reality of the working world becomes clearer the more times a young person interacts with the world of work.” – Nick Chambers The future will be about pairing the cognitive, social and emotional capabilities of human beings with machines. The ‘Drawing the Future’ report (a collaboration between the OECD and the UK based charity, Education and Employers) was published in Davos this year. It featured...
The Global Search for Education: Are You a Pioneer?
“Pioneer Works is in all instances a “museum of process.” A place that is predicated on exchange and production, and not on consumption or distribution alone.” – Dustin Yellin Pioneers are explorers, innovators, entrepreneurs and artists who strive to start something new. Dustin Yellin is a pioneer. His institute, Pioneer Works, in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, New York, is a vibrant incarnation of what a modern...
Around the World in 30 Days – April 2019
C.M. Rubin’s Global Education Report Could the traditional rows of desks and chalkboard-centered classrooms soon become a relic of a bygone age? Open learning spaces enhance the opportunities for group discussions, collaborative project learning, and individual student training. Allan Kjær Andersen knows this. He was the Principal of Ørestad Gymnasium (OG) in Copenhagen, a school globally renowned for its open learning spaces and...
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