The Global Search for Education: Teachers Without Borders
At this very moment we have a community of 350 passionate teachers across 75 countries, offering free Skype lessons.” – Koen Timmers In the era of globalization, interactions and learning between students of different countries have become a necessity for classrooms. Koen Timmers, an award-winning educator, researcher, lecturer and author, is a firm believer in “borderless” education. Already working with teachers and...
The Global Search for Education: Is Virtual Reality the Ultimate Empathy Machine for Racism?
“We believe that achieving racial justice requires that we all understand racism and that this is best done through visceral experiences rather than intellectual exercises.” – Dr. Courtney Cogburn Since the 1990s, Virtual Reality projects have been aimed at cultivating empathy for people with serious health conditions. Recently, Stanford University conducted an immersive technology study that discovered that people...
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: 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...
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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