Around the World in 30 Days – March 2016
C. M. Rubin’s Global Education Report From Education Fast Forward’s 17th debate in partnership with UNESCO at Mobile Learning Week in Paris, to our Twitter Chat on Multiculturalism in partnership with Edmodo, to interviewing the Top 10 finalists for the Varkey Foundation’s Global Teacher Prize, to exploring cutting edge technology that’s changing music education, to welcoming the voices of new experts to our...
The Global Search for Education: Innovation, Quality and Mobile
“I think technology has the potential to unlock new approaches to assessment that will change what and how we teach. I believe that the current curriculum shape and form that we see around the world with subjects taught in silos has to change.”– Jim Wynn Innovation and Quality: Two Sides of the Same Coin? was the title of Education Fast Forward’s 17th global debate at Mobile Learning Week in Paris in...
Around the World in 30 Days – February 2016
C. M. Rubin’s Global Education Report Ambassador Kirsti Kauppi, Dr. Nicholas Breakwell, Dr. David Perkins, Andreas Schleicher and Pak Tee Ng contributed to The Global Search for Education discussions this month on future learning, sharing perspectives on topics which ranged from what’s really worth learning, to strategies to improve learning amongst 15 year olds, to an insider’s look at how online training for...
The Global Search for Education: Just Imagine – Pak Tee Ng – Singapore
“The annual Clean and Green Singapore Schools’ Carnival encourages students, teachers and partners in education to showcase their projects that protect the environment.” — Pak Tee Ng Just imagine schools decades from today – what will they be like? Pak Tee Ng is Associate Dean, Leadership Learning, and the Head of Policy and Leadership Studies Academic Group at the National Institute of Education (NIE),...
The Global Search for Education: An Interview with Ambassador Kirsti Kauppi
“If we are to achieve the joint goals adopted in the UN in September, they have to be part of everything we do, including education.” — Kirsti Kauppi Finland, a favorite for us here at The Global Search For Education, is renowned for its innovative and progressive thinking when it comes to education. So I was delighted to speak to Kirsti Kauppi, the recently appointed Ambassador of Finland to the United States....
The Global Search for Education: Training Teachers Online
“Whilst access to a school is obviously still required for training, today no aspiring teacher should be denied entry to the profession as a result of being unable to access an ITT provider.” — Nicholas Breakwell Dr. Nicholas Breakwell spent almost a decade at Hibernia College in Ireland and its subsidiary in the UK (the latter was recently purchased by TES Global for whom Breakwell consults). During that time he had...
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