The Global Search for Education: Sharks – An Earth Day Story
“While human fatalities from sharks average six per year, humans kill 100 million sharks every year.” – William McKeever “Kill sharks and you kill the marine ecosystem,” says William McKeever, whose ground-breaking book, Emperors of the Deep, reveals new research on why these magnificent creatures are essential to maintaining the health of our planet. Forget almost everything you learned about the unstoppable killing...
The Global Search for Education: Learning That’s Virtually Real
“We believe the training and collaboration with teachers around the world will be absolute key to increasing the adoption more rapidly, and could easily lead to millions of students using VR globally to learn science more effectively.” – Michael Bodekaer Jensen Will all students one day have the opportunity to explore the world from within their classroom walls? Worldwide shipments for augmented reality and virtual...
The Global Search for Education: Feel, Imagine, Do, Share!
“Our Riverside school uses a curriculum that we call ‘Humane’, and the 5 E’s that shape our curriculum are Empathy, Ethics, Excellence, Elevation and Evolution” – Kiran Bir Sethi Children are the future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Since 2009, Design for Change, based in India, has focused on creating learning environments that balance academic programs with character development. Their program focuses...
The Global Search for Education: Open Spaces Open Minds
“I think it’s necessary for all schools in our times to be able to answer the fundamental question: why do we need schools? What is the school’s contribution to developing new citizenship?” – Allan Kjær Andersen 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...
Around the World in 30 Days: March 2019
C.M. Rubin’s Global Education Report Professor Anant Agarwal, Founder and CEO of edX, won the Yidan prize for Education Development. Agarwal leads edX, an online learning destination created by Harvard and MIT scientists with the goal of providing high quality education at scale. The first edX course attracted 155,000 students from 162 countries. Today, the platform offers over 2000 online courses from more than 150 education...
The Global Search for Education: Don’t Guess My Race
“We want children to see how the world doesn’t come in bounded natural groups, but that there are spectrums of difference and multiplicities of intersecting identities that overlay this difference.” – Michael Baran Deepening divides fragment our societies and our economies. How can modern technologies help us to find the common ground and bring us closer together? In an increasingly interconnected world, race,...
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