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4 May 2023
79: Driving Innovation - The Intersection Between Tech & Learning ft. Isabelle Hau & Paul Kim
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You've undoubtedly heard of ChatGPT, the AI tool that's captured the attention of everyone from students and teachers to policymakers and governments. But the reality is that the pace of AI's evolution is already lightyears ahead of our ability to respond.
Recent updates to Open AI's tool has enabled it to edit videos, write research papers, create a webpage from a rough sketch drawn on a napkin, and even serve as your very own virtual assistant for just about anything. The speed of its advancement has even made Open AI's founder, Sam Altman, a bit apprehensive about the ways it will change the world.
Given the many implications of this powerful tool, we would be naive to think that we could tackle this multifacted issue in just one episode. So this time, we'll focus on the essentials: what do we know about AI so far and how should education respond?
Recently, WISE Director Elyas Felfoul took a trip to Stanford University. He was surprised to find that during a breakfast meeting, countless key stakeholders working in the heart of innovation were all caught off guard by this new technology.
To gain more insights, Elyas sat down with Isabelle Hau and Paul Kim of Stanford to discuss the potential benefits and drawbacks of edtech, AI, and the role of technology in promoting innovation in education.
Isabelle, Executive Director of the Stanford Accelerator for Learning, brings extensive experience in edtech to the conversation. And as a long time tech enthusiast, Paul, Associate Dean & CTO of Stanford, has dedicated much of his research to using tech to improve education and provides a unique perspective on the challenges and opportunities of integrating technology in education settings.
Join Elyas, Isabelle, and Paul in this conversation to learn more about this new frontier of Artificial Intelligence.
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Relevant links:
MIT report on ChatGPT and writing: https://bit.ly/3HFYGy2
Isabelle Hau: https://www.isabellehau.com
Paul Kim: https://bit.ly/3LxVXaX
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16 Mar 2023
78: Going From Pilots to Scale - The Journey of MENA's First Edtech Testbed
Apply for the WISE Edtech Accelerator before 14 April: http://bit.ly/40dVNLQ
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With so many technological breakthroughs, have you ever wondered if there was a way we could better systemize the implementation of edtech in the classroom in a way that benefits teachers rather than creating unnecessary burdens? Enter the world of testbeds.
Edtech testbeds are essentially environments where new Edtech tools and approaches can be developed and tested in a controlled setting. But why do we need testbeds in the first place? Despite the rapid growth of the edtech industry in the MENA region and globally, there are still significant challenges facing the sector, including limited access to funding and a lack of technical expertise. On top of that, there's a crucial need for better alignment between edtech products and local education needs. This is where edtech testbeds come in as a crucial bridge, connecting edtech companies with educators to develop innovative solutions that meet the unique needs of learners in the region and around the world.
For the past two years, WISE has been building the MENA region's first edtech testbed, located in Qatar's Education City.
In this episode, WISE Director Elyas Felfoul discusses the journey and key milestones of the project with Seungah Lee, a senior lecturer of social research and public policy at NYU Abu Dhabi and the lead researcher on Qatar’s first edtech testbed.
Together, they delve into insights they learned that could not only benefit the region's edtech development, but globally as a whole.
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Relevant links:
Download the Edtech Testbed Report for Free: http://bit.ly/3YPTvkU
Seungah Lee: http://bit.ly/3mNDazE
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7 Mar 2023
77: From Theory to Practice - Lessons from WISE Awards Winning Innovators
Last time on WISE On Air we were joined by three 2022 WISE Awards Winning Project holders, Janhvi Kanoria, Susan Mtana, and Tyler Samstag. We brought these innovators on the show because we’re looking to decipher what does it take to unlock the potential of great ideas to transform education.
In a rapidly evolving world, it can be argued that traditional education models are being constantly disrupted with the advent of new technological breakthroughs. In 2023 alone we’re seeing massive strides with A.I. and machine learning for example. In fact, according to a report by HolonIQ, the global education market is estimated to reach $10 trillion by 2030, with a growing number of startups and investors seeking to revolutionize the sector.
As we navigate these changes, it's important to understand what sets successful education initiatives apart. What can we learn from the ones that have made a real impact? In this second part episode, we'll dive into some of the groundbreaking solutions that are reshaping education in different contexts around the world.
Following our conversation last time with Janhvi, Susan and Tyler, joining us are the other three 2022 WISE Awards Winning innovators Daniela Labra of Mexico-based project Educating for Wellbeing by AtentaMente, Andrew McCusker of Chicago-based project Opportunity EduFinance by Opportunity International, and Kuldeep Dantewadia of India-based project Climate Change Problem Solvers by Reap Benefit.
Together with WISE Awards program manager, Niamh Whelan, we discussed:
- The 'eureka' moment when creating their projects
- Balancing important stakeholders from beneficiaries to partnerships
- Key challenges they faced and how they overcame them
- And key lessons for other innovators looking to make change in the
education space.
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Relevant links:
Reap Benefit: https://www.instagram.com/reapbenefit/?hl=en
AtentaMente: http://bit.ly/3miroNJ
Opportunity International: https://opportunity.org/
The WISE Awards: bit.ly/3IYvVOe
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28 Feb 2023
76: Rethinking Education - Lessons from WISE Awards Winning Innovators
Featuring Susan Mtana of Kenya-based Kidogo, Tyler Samstag of Pittsburgh-based Remake Learning, and Janhvi Kanoria of Qatar-based Education Above All.
In today's rapidly changing world, the traditional model of education is being challenged like never before. New technologies, changing social and economic conditions, and a multitude of other factors are reshaping the way we learn and teach.
With these changes come novel initiatives and solutions that are tackling pressing challenges of learning in unconventional ways. But what sets a great solution apart and leads to real impact? What can we learn from those who have succeeded where others struggled?
In this two-part episode, we'll be speaking with six innovators behind the 2022 WISE Awards winning projects to learn what it takes to make a great idea a reality and delve deeper into some of the things they wish they knew when they set out to change education.
Together with Susan Mtana, Tyler Samstag, and Janhvi Kanoria, we discussed topics including:
- The 'eureka' moment when creating their projects
- Balancing important stakeholders from beneficiaries to partnerships
- Key challenges they faced and how they overcame them
- And key lessons for other innovators looking to make change in the
education space.
Be sure to subscribe to WISE On Air to be notified when part 2 is out!
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Relevant links:
Internet Free Education Resource Bank (IFERB)by Education Above All: http://bit.ly/3kwcPp7
Kidogo: https://www.kidogo.co
Remake Learning: https://remakelearning.org
The WISE Awards: https://bit.ly/3IYvVOe
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3 Dec 2021
75: The Science of Emotions & Building Resilience - Marc Brackett
This episode is the third and final of the Unmute Education limited series dedicated to raising the volume on the education conversation in the leadup to the WISE 2021 Global Summit taking place in Doha, Qatar and online on 7-9 December 2021.
Featured in this podcast is Marc Brackett, author of Permission to Feel, and the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and a professor in the Child Study Center at Yale University. Marc has published over 120 scholarly articles on the role of emotions and emotional intelligence in learning, decision making, creativity, relationships, health, and performance. He is the lead developer of RULER, an evidence-based, systemic approach to social and emotional learning that has been adopted by more than two thousand schools, pre-K through high school, across the United States and in other countries.
Tune in to this third and final episode of the Unmute Education limited series to hear Marc Brackett’s discussion alongside host and CEO of WISE, Stavros Yiannouka discuss the insights of Marc’s book Permission to Feel, Marc’s own emotional makeup, the impact of the pandemic on our understanding of social-emotional learning, the roots of emotional neglect in Western philosophy, and many more topics.
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Relevant links:
Follow Marc: https://twitter.com/marcbrackett
Permission To Feel: https://www.marcbrackett.com/about/book-permission-to-feel/
RULER: https://www.rulerapproach.org
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24 Nov 2021
74: The Climate Crisis - Educating for Outcomes - Amel Karboul
This episode is the second of the Unmute Education limited series dedicated to raising the volume on the education conversation in the leadup to the WISE 2021 Global Summit taking place in Doha, Qatar and online on 7-9 December 2021.
Featured in this podcast is Amel Karboul, the founding CEO of the Education Outcomes Fund, a ground-breaking international effort to change the way that education is funded particularly in developing country contexts. The effort is championed by amongst others Gordon Brown, the former prime minister of the United Kingdom, and Sir Ronald Cohen co-founder of Apax Partners, one of Europe’s most successful Venture Capital Firms.
Prior to taking on her role with the Education Outcomes Fund Amel held leadership positions at Mercedes-Benz, DaimlerChrysler; and the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). She also served in her native Tunisia as Minister of Tourism from 2014 to 2015 during the country’s transition to democracy.
She was the first woman to occupy that position and the youngest member of the Mehdi Jooma administration. Amel was also a member of the Education Commission chaired by Gordon Brown. She is the author of Coffin Corner, a book outlining a new leadership culture suited to the complexity and dynamics of the 21st century.
Tune in to this second episode of the Unmute Education limited series to hear Amel Karboul’s discussion alongside host and CEO of WISE, Stavros Yiannouka tackle the climate crisis, outcome-based funding, and many more topics.
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Relevant links:
UNESCO Report cited in the intro: https://www.wise-qatar.org/app/uploads/2021/11/web-page.pdf
Education Outcomes Fund: https://www.educationoutcomesfund.org
Amel Karboul's website: https://karboul.com
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17 Nov 2021
73: Empowering Young Leader's of Tomorrow in Today's World - Victoria Ibiwoye
This episode is the first of the Unmute Education limited series dedicated to raising the volume on the education conversation in the leadup to the WISE 2021 Global Summit taking place in Doha, Qatar and online on 7-9 December 2021.
Featured in this podcast is Victoria Ibiwoye, is the Founder of OneAfricanChild, a youth-led organization with a mission to create opportunities in underserved communities and unleash the potential in young people through global citizenship education programs. She also served as the Youth Representative of the SDG-Education 2030 Steering Committee.
As the world slowly emerges from the shadows of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important that we not only take stock of the largely negative impact on education with the prolonged lockdowns and school closures, but also look ahead to the challenges that confront us, most of which long predate the pandemic, and the opportunities that are becoming available to solve some of the world’s most intractable challenges, not least of which is the promise of universal quality education enshrined in the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
As a global community, we have gone long on ambition, whether it be the 17 SDG’s or the aspiration to limit global warming to below 1.5 degrees Celsius, above pre-industrial levels. However, more often than not, we have fallen short on execution. Not surprisingly, young people have noticed this discrepancy, and in growing numbers have embraced civil society activism demanding meaningful change. Activism, although necessary, is unfortunately not sufficient to bring about desired outcomes. It needs to be accompanied by action.
Tune in to this first episode of the Unmute Education limited series to hear Victoria Ibiwoye’s discussion alongside host and CEO of WISE, Stavros Yiannouka tackle youth leadership, One African Child, and many more topics.
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Relevant links:
One African Child: oneafricanchild.org
Follow Victoria Ibiwoye: twitter.com/victoriaibiwoye
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16 Sept 2021
72: Post-Pandemic Priorities for Education Part 6: Africa - Shannon May
Africa is the birthplace of humanity. The place where Homo Sapiens evolved language, built increasingly complex tools, and took the first tentative steps on a journey that would see our species populate the entire world.
If Africa represents humanity’s distant past, it also, in many respects, represents its future. Most of the world’s growth in population today, and for the foreseeable future, is taking place in Africa.
The UN projects that by 2090, around half of all children under the age of 15 will be in Africa. It does not take a giant leap of the imagination to conclude that the education of those children is of crucial importance, not just for the continent itself, but for the entire world.
To help us understand the state of education in Africa, President and Co-Founder of NewGlobe, Shannon May joins Host and CEO of WISE, Stavros Yiannouka, in conversation.
NewGlobe is the largest supporter of technology-enabled schools across Africa, supporting national and state governments and communities across the continent.
Tune in to hear Shannon discuss the overall state of education in Africa pre-pandemic, education responses to the pandemic, parental engagement, the status and appreciation of teachers, and many more topics, including a special section towards the end featuring Education Editor of the Financial Times, Andrew Jack reflecting on the conversation.
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Relevant links:
NewGlobe: https://newglobe.education/
Follow Shannon May: https://twitter.com/drshannonmay?lang=en
Follow Andrew Jack: https://twitter.com/AJack?s=20
Financial Times Education: https://www.ft.com/education
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14 Jul 2021
71: Post-Pandemic Priorities for Education Part 5: Europe - Tracey Burns
Europe is the world's wealthiest continent and the first region in the world to modernize. The scientific and industrial revolutions began in Europe and the first recognizably modern administrative states were established there, with the possible exception of China. Europe's fragmentation into competing empires and nation-states is seen as both a strength and a weakness.
Given the historical context, it is not surprising that Europe's policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic was far from uniform, even in the collective structures of the EU. When it comes to education priorities for the post-pandemic era, can Europe reprise its role as the world's policy innovation laboratory?
To help answer this question, Senior Analyst at the OECD Center for Educational Research & Innovation, Tracey Burns joins us in the latest episode of our special series focusing on post-pandemic priorities for the future of education.
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Relevant links:
Trends shaping education: https://www.oecd.org/education/ceri/trends-shaping-education.htm
21st century children: https://www.oecd.org/education/ceri/21st-century-children.htm
Strenghtening the impact of educational research: https://www.oecd.org/education/ceri/education-research-team.htm
Tracey's recent publications:
https://www.oecd.org/education/back-to-the-future-s-of-education-178ef527-en.htm
https://www.oecd.org/education/education-in-the-digital-age-1209166a-en.htm
https://www.oecd.org/digital/educating-21st-century-children-b7f33425-en.htm
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27 May 2021
70: Post-Pandemic Priorities for Education Part 4: Brazil - Claudia Costin
Claudia Costin is the founder and director of the Center for Excellence and Innovation in Education Policies (FGV CEIPE), a think and do tank within Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV), a leading private University in Brazil, where she is a professor. Claudia was until 2018 a visiting Professor at the Harvard School of Education.
Brazil is the most populous country and the largest economy in Latin America. It is home to over 650 million people, about a third of whom live in just one country. The region is currently where some of the world’s most intractable challenges confronting the world are present in their most acute forms. For example, according to the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America & the Caribbean, the region is the most unequal part of the world, notwithstanding positive economic growth.
Claudia Costin joins us to help navigate through recent developments in Brazil and the broader Latin American region, and to discuss post-pandemic priorities for the future of education in the region.
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Relevant links:
Follow Claudia: https://bit.ly/2RO0IW5
Learn more about Claudia: https://bit.ly/3vrO2CV
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7 May 2021
69: Post-Pandemic Priorities for Education Part 3: China - Berlin Fang
Berlin Fang is an education columnist and currently serves as the Director of Instructional Design at Abilene Christian University. His major interests are faculty acceptance of educational technology, the diffusion of innovation, managed change, academic integrity, the ethnography of technology use in higher education, and cross-cultural comparisons of education. Prior to this, he was the Associate Director of North Institute at Oklahoma Christian University, Instructional Design Specialist for Marshall University, and program manager for the American Management Association (China). He graduated from Syracuse University with an M.S. in instructional design and Nanjing University with an M.A. in English Language and Literature.
In this episode, we sit down with Berlin to discuss China’s post-pandemic priorities for the future of education.
China is the world’s most populous country and its second-largest economy. Current growth trends suggest that China is poised to overtake the…
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25 Mar 2021
68: Post-Pandemic Priorities for Education Part 2 India - Rukmini Banerji
Rukmini Banerji is the CEO of the Pratham Education Foundation, India's and the world's largest education NGO. Rukmini has been with Pratham since 1996 and has extensive field experience in program design implementation in both rural and urban settings. She also led Pratham's research and assessment activities, including the groundbreaking ASER report from 2005 to 2014.
In this episode, we sit down with Rukmini to discuss India’s post-pandemic priorities for the future of education.
India is the world’s second-most populous country and is projected to overtake China in just four years to become the world’s most populous country with 1.45 billion people. India already has the world’s largest school-age population: around 250 million children aged between 5-15. That’s 20% of the world’s total and to put that figure further into perspective, the equivalent figure for China is around 170 million.
How India will cope with the education fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic will…
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11 Mar 2021
67: Post-Pandemic Priorities for Education Part I: The United States - Rebecca Winthrop
Rebecca Winthrop is a senior fellow and co-director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution.
Her research focuses on education globally, with special attention to the skills young people need to thrive in work, life, and as constructive citizens. She advises governments, international institutions, foundations, civil society organizations, and corporations on education issues.
Winthrop has authored numerous articles, reports, books, and book chapters, including most recently Leapfrogging Inequality: Remaking Education to Help Young People Thrive with Adam Barton and Eileen McGivney. Her work has been featured in the BBC, Newsweek, Time Ideas, NPR, Economist, and The Financial Times, among others.
Rebecca joins us to discuss Brooking's new taskforce assembled to guide the next generation of community schools in the US, the scale of the learning loss in the US, building back better, and much more.
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19 Jan 2021
66: Looking Back at 2020's Highlights
2020 is a year that can be described in infinite ways, but one thing is for sure is that on top of the new obstacles introduced by the ongoing crisis, many of the long-term challenges we have faced in our education systems have been exposed or even exacerbated. In response to this, for the past year, we saw a global community of educators, practitioners, policymakers, and organizations come together on multiple occasions to share their experiences and discuss solutions not only in terms of an emergency response to the pandemic but even addressing longstanding issues that have plagued many educations systems around the world.
In this episode, we take a look back at some of 2020's key takeaways from our 20+ episodes released amid COVID-19 and beyond.
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15 Dec 2020
65: Adapting for a Better Future - Building Resilience in Children with Sherrie Westin
Sherrie Westin serves as President of Social Impact and Philanthropy at education nonprofit Sesame Workshop, the organization behind Sesame Street.
In her time at Sesame Workshop, she has led countless efforts to serve vulnerable children through mass media and targeted initiatives in the United States and around the world. Westin led Sesame’s efforts to win a historic $100M grant from the MacArthur Foundation to fund the largest early childhood intervention in the history of humanitarian response. With an additional $100M grant from The Lego Foundation, this initiative has expanded to Bangladesh. She was named a “Leading Global Thinker” by Foreign Policy Magazine and one of Fast Company’s “100 Most Creative People in Business”.
Sherrie joins us to discuss the legacy of Sesame Workshop, how they are adapting to the new normal, and what we can do to continue building greater resilience in children.
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10 Nov 2020
64: Reimagining Education in VR with Alvin Wang Graylin
Can VR transform education? HTC China President Alvin Wang Graylin has over 20 years of experience in tech business management, including 15 years focusing on industries in greater China. During that time, you could consider him a serial entrepreneur - he’s founded four venture-backed startups in the mobile and internet space covering social media, ad tech, search, big data, and media. Additionally, he has held $100+ million P&L roles at public companies such as Intel and Trend Micro. Alvin received his BS in electrical engineering from the University of Washington, MS in computer science from MIT, and MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management. In this episode, Alvin talks about how VR has evolved throughout the years, how we can use it to harness the potential of virtual learning, and how it gives us the ability to restore our human interaction in the virtual space.
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Relevant links:
HTC: https://www.vive.com/eu/
Vive XR Suite: http…
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2 Nov 2020
63: Edutainment in Africa with Nisha Ligon
Meet the 2020 WISE Awards winners: https://bit.ly/3kNrBTq
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Nisha Ligon is the Co-Founder and CEO of 2017 WISE Awards winning education project, Ubongo - the leading kids edutainment company across Africa. Ubongo leverages the reach of mass media, the stickiness of stories, animation and music, and the interactivity of mobile technology to bring millions of kids across Africa fun learning at low cost. Ubongo’s multiplatform edutainment reaches millions of kids aged 3-14 weekly on TV, radio, mobile and web.
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Relevant links:
Ubongo: https://www.ubongo.org
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20 Oct 2020
62: Why Social-Emotional Learning is More Important Than Ever
With societies more fluid and fragmented than ever, how can we help young people feel confident in their own identities? Leading members of Karanga: The Global Alliance for SEL and Life Skills, discuss why Social-Emotional Learning is more important than ever in today's world.
Featuring:
- Jennifer Adams, Chair - Chair - OECD Study in Social-Emotional Skills
- Joanne McEachen - Founder and CEO, The Learner First
- Louka Parry - Founder and CEO, The Learning Future
- Dominic Regester - Program Director, Salzburg Global Seminar
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Relevant links:
Karanga: https://karanga.org
OECD: http://www.oecd.org/education/ceri/social-emotional-skills-study/
Salzburg Global Seminar: https://www.salzburgglobal.org
The Learner First: https://thelearnerfirst.com
The Learning Future: https://www.thelearningfuture.com
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14 Oct 2020
61: Post-COVID19 - An Edtech Investor's Insights with George Straschnov
2020 WISE Accelerator: bit.ly/2020-21WISEAcceleratorCohort
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This episode’s guest is George Straschnov, Managing Director of strategic education technology fund, Bisk Ventures. George has been a long-time lawyer and dove into venture capital since the early 2000s. Bisk Ventures is a corporate venture capital arm of Bisk Education who were some of the pioneers of what became the online MBA and helped bring a lot of major universities to transition their modules online.
George shares some of his insights on the edtech space and what he predicts for the future of learning post-COVID19.
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Relevant links:
Follow Bisk: https://twitter.com/BiskVentures
Bisk Ventures website: https://www.biskventures.com
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8 Oct 2020
60: Engaging Students from Vulnerable Communities with Vicky Colbert
Founder & Director of Escuela Nueva and long-time pioneer of innovation in the education space, Vicky Colbert joins us to discuss engaging students from vulnerable communities.
Vicky has co-authored the worldwide renowned Escuela Nueva model which has been expanded across more than 19 countries since its inception. Her work has been recognized with several awards and distinctions, most notably winning the 2013 WISE Prize for Education.
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Relevant links:
Follow Vicky: https://twitter.com/ColbertVicky
Escuela Nueva: https://bit.ly/34DY1Ja
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24 Sept 2020
59: Learning Through Play in Schools with Bo Stjerne Thomsen
Do children need to go back to school? And is it time to reassess or reconceptualize the traditional school model? Vice President and Chair of Learning Through Play of the LEGO Foundation, Bo Stjerne Thomsen joins us to share some of the insights from the foundation’s recent research findings in its white paper titled learning through play in schools.
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Relevant links:
LEGO Foundation white paper on learning through play in school: https://bit.ly/2RXmFyi
LEGO Foundation Report on Children, Tech, and Play: https://bit.ly/3mQe8LO
Read Bo Stjerne's article - Do Children Need to Go 'Back to School': https://rb.gy/vw1rlv
Follow Bo Stjerne: https://twitter.com/BoStjerne
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9 Sept 2020
58: How Edtech is Changing the Higher Education Landscape with Amira Yahyaoui
Tunisian entrepreneur, blogger, and human rights activist, Amira Yahyaoui joins us to discuss what the edtech space is doing to support and change the higher education landscape amid the back-to-school season.
Amira is currently the Founder & CEO of Mos.com, an online platform that provides easier access to more than $135B available in college financial aid.
Before starting Mos and entering tech, Amira set her sights in the nonprofit world. In the past and the present, she has worked tirelessly to promote human rights in Tunisia where she founded Al Bawsala, an award-winning NGO that continues to promote government transparency and accountability in Tunisia.
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18 Aug 2020
57: Public Health Education for Children with Dimitri Christakis
Dr. Dimitri Christakis joins us again to discuss recent developments in global education and the many implications of lockdown on early childhood cognitive development.
Dr. Christakis is a pediatrician, researcher, a parent, the George Adkins Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington, Director of the Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development at Seattle Children’s Research Institute, and an attending pediatrician at Seattle Children’s Hospital.
He is the author of over 230 original research articles, a textbook of paediatrics and The Elephant in the Living Room: Make Television work for your kids. (September 2006; Rodale). In 2010 he was awarded the Academic Pediatric Association Research Award for outstanding contributions to pediatric research over his career. He was also a speaker at the WISE 2019 Summit.
A new season of #WISEWords focusing on back to school will begin in early September 2020! Subscribe to our social media channels to stay tuned.
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26 Jul 2020
56: Maths in the Age of A.I. with Conrad Wolfram
Strategic Director and European Co-Founder/CEO of the Wolfram Research, Conrad Wolfram joins us once again to discuss how today’s maths may need to experience a fundamental redesign., through the lens of his newly published book ‘The Math(s) Fix’.
A key part of Conrad’s work has been understanding the underlying scope of our technology and communicating what we have. He is interested in how technology and computation can move our lives and economies forward and in turn how this affects education.
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5 Jul 2020
55: Personalized Adaptive Learning Technologies with Claudio Sassaki
Co-Founder of Brazilian edtech startup, Geekie, Claudio Sassaki joins us to discuss how schools in Brazil have been utilizing personalized adaptive learning technologies in a bid to keep learners active from home.
He has been recognized by Wired UK as one of the most important social innovators of the world and awarded by Schwab Foundation as social entrepreneur of the year in 2014. Since 2016, Geekie has had more than five million students taking advantage of the personalized adaptive learning platform.
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16 Jun 2020
54: China's Shift to Online Learning with Berlin Fang
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Education Columnist and Director of Instructional Design at Abilene Christian University, Berlin Fang joins us to discuss China’s shift to online learning and how it has evolved compared to other places that have made the jump around the world.
Berlin’s major interests are faculty acceptance of educational technology, the diffusion of innovation, managed change, academic integrity, the ethnography of technology use in higher education, and cross-cultural comparisons of education.
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Ten Common Myths about Educational Innovations: https://bit.ly/2UT08Vs
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7 Jun 2020
53: COVID-19 and the Third Sector with Nayla Al Fahed and Mike Dawson
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COVID-19 continues to affect many systems and societies around the world. Many charities and NGOs are facing challenges in providing their services through the global pandemic, yet many continue to persevere and bring aid and learning to those in need. We’re joined by Nayla Al Fahed from Lebanese Alternative Learning (LAL), and Mike Dawson from Ustad Mobile, to discuss the role of the third sector in the pandemic.
LAL’s Tabshoura and Ustad Mobile are both cohorts of the WISE Accelerator program and use technology with the aim to provide education to remote areas.
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Tabshoura: http://www.tabshoura.com
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1 Jun 2020
52: Augmented Learning with Dwayne Iserief
We’re joined by Dwayne Iserief, Co-founder and CEO of Uptale, an immersive learning platform that utilizes 360-degree technology and virtual reality to facilitate training and learning modules.
It’s an e-learning and training platform that allows you to simulate real-world environments, and interact with objects in the virtual space.
Together with host and CEO of WISE, Stavros Yiannouka, they’ll be discussing more about the implications of such technologies, and what augmented learning brings to the fore.
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19 May 2020
51: Preparing Students For Change with Kiran Bir Sethi
We’re joined by Kiran Bir Sethi, the founder of Design For Change which is the world’s largest movement for change of and by children, operating in 44 countries and impacting millions of students and teachers. She is also the Director of the celebrated Riverside School in Ahmedabad, India.
Kiran is a designer who became a teacher, a principal who grew into an education reformer and subsequently morphed into a social entrepreneur. In this episode, together with host of the show and CEO of WISE, Stavros Yiannouka, Kiran discusses reflecting on the role of loss in education, preparing students for change, ethics, and practising empathy online.
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12 May 2020
50: Edtech Frontlines - The Case of Latin America with Agustín Thienen
"This COVID-19, to make an analogy, would be like waking from a dream. The first 2 minutes, you remember it really vividly, but if you don't talk to someone or you don't write it down, then you forget it quite immediately. I won't ever choose to go through this, but as it is happening, we need to make the most of it. What does this mean?"
Agustín Pardo Van Thienen, currently the CEO of OX Education, and someone who started his entrepreneurial journey in education from a very young age, joins us to discuss the Latin American Education response to the current situation, and how edtech ventures like Ox’s Spanish learning platform Wumbox are stepping up in an attempt to ensure learning never stops.
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Ox: http://www.oxed.com.ar
Wumbox: https://www.wumbox.comox
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https://www.instagram.com/oxeducation/
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4 May 2020
49: How Schools Can Plan For The New Normal with William Zhou
We’re joined by William Zhou, CEO of Chalk, a versatile planning and analytics platform tailored to the K-12 curriculum and designed to help support teachers and schools stay online and on-track.
Five years ago, William was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 list in education. Back then, there were about 100,000 users using the curriculum planning platform. Fast forward to today, there are now more than 500,000 teachers have signed up to Chalk. Chalk was also part of the WISE Accelerator cohort of 2016-17.
Such tools are undoubtedly helping to keep schools and districts focused and ensuring the right standards are being taught to students, and that’s especially important in times of uncertainty.
If this is the new normal, how can we schools and educators plan effectively for it? William Zhou sits down with CEO of WISE, Stavros Yiannouka, to discuss this in-depth.
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1 May 2020
48: COVID-19 - An Education Response with Fernando Reimers and Andreas Schleicher
One of the key questions we’re still looking to answer is how we can best support education decision making to ensure an effective education response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
A framework to guide and education response to the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 is a new report that was recently released to help guide education leaders and promote global collaboration during the unprecedented crisis.
Harvard Graduate Professor Fernando Reimers and Andreas Schleicher, Director for Education and Skills at the OECD issued the framework and join us for this episode to discuss some of its findings.
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- A framework to guide an education response: https://bit.ly/2WkzIeY
- Teaching and learning resources: https://bit.ly/35lmAdP
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9 Apr 2020
47: How Schools Can Adapt to Remote Learning with Aparna Ramanathan
"The one silver lining that has come out of the COVID19 pandemic in education is that there’s now a shift in truly considering the whole child."
Aparna Ramanathan of AskMyClass joins WISE Words to discuss how schools can adapt to remote learning.
As students continue learning from a distance, we must consider if too much screen time is conducive to learning? Aparna took AskMyClass an audio path for learning, by introducing a voice system to the classroom so that children are screen and hands-free to collaborate with each other. Now, they're looking to adapt the platform for the home with AskMyKid.
In this episode, Stavros Yiannouka, CEO of WISE and host of WISE Words talks to Aparna about the many ways schools have been adapting to the crisis, the potential of audio tools for the classroom, and keeping kids active and learning from home.
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7 Apr 2020
46: Training Teachers From a Distance with Aldo de Pape
Like in many other industries, education practitioners and students around the world have been jumping into digital platforms as a means to continue operating amid the crisis.
A remote-powered world draws many challenges into question. Issues concerning ease-of-use, accessibility, and privacy and security are some that teachers are continuing to grapple with.
In an attempt to address these challenges, edtech solutions are stepping up to train teachers and education stakeholders how they can effectively utilize technology to not only facilitate the classroom experience, but to potentially enhance it.
In this episode, Aldo De Pape, founder of TeachPitch, sits down with host Stavros Yiannouka to discuss how the organization has been training thousands of teachers in partnership with the Ministry of Albania. They talk about how the crisis has affected TeachPitch, the difference between online teaching and emergency remote teaching, and what it means to provide a central infrastructure for…
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25 Mar 2020
45: What Do Young People Want From Their Education?
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Nine out of ten young adults feel that they have a responsibility to better the world - yet not even half of those 9 people feel equipped to take action towards this goal. This is according to some of the latest findings of an extensive research survey that was released by WISE recently for the International Day of Education on 24 January.
Conducted by Ipsos, the WISE Global Education Barometer includes surveys conducted by more than 9000 young people between the age of 16 to 25 across 20 countries from around the world.
In this episode of WISE Words, we will be taking a look at some of the key findings of the survey, and discuss with university students of Qatar Foundation's Education City about the future of education.
Many thanks to the students who participated in this episode:
-Ria Sayadi
-Andrew Edward
-Ghada Al-Qashouti
-Salar Mujeeb Khan
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11 Mar 2020
44: Scaling Innovation in Education with Ted Fujimoto
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Innovation. You’ve probably seen the word being generously used across the media you consume. It’s the buzzword that many companies and organizations strive to achieve and specifically mention in their strategy (including ours!).
In fact, a consulting firm, Board of Innovation, estimates that there are over 70,000 books written on innovation and the philosophies behind it. Despite its status as an overused term, it's values is most definitely still appreciated and adopted by industries alike, including the education space.
However, education has been one of the sectors where innovation and change have been notoriously difficult to scale. Many cite challenges such as limited resources, undercompensated teachers, and students who are disengaged.
At WISE, we know that innovative education projects are taking shape in many forms across the globe.
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29 Jan 2020
43: AI for Education <-> Education for AI with Meia & Max Tegmark
There was a time when robots were so primitive they could only navigate on wheels, now not only do some have some the ability to walk, but they can even do backflips. That's not all - AI has become so advanced that it can already teach languages, like Botter, one of the WISE Accelerator cohorts, it can pick out the ripest raspberries in your supermarket by utilizing tactile sensors, or even generate deep fake videos of world leaders reciting controversial statements. Which begs the question: Should we embrace AI as a solution to solve problems in our world? To what extent can its abilities surpass ours, how should we regulate the way it’s used? Can we depend on it to enhance education? Well, it doesn't just go in one direction, instead, we should be thinking about how human beings and AI can work together to become better. Meia and Max Tegmark of the Future of Life institute join us to discuss all about AI's role in education, speculative fiction, demanding transparency in tech, and…
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18 Jan 2020
42: How Music Can Transform The Way We Learn with Stevie Van Zandt & David Roth
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"The success of what we do has to do with teaching kids HOW to think instead of WHAT to think, and that is something that the arts does best." It is impossible to deny the universal capacity of music to touch the souls of millions around the world. So why have we not used it as a gateway to learning in the classroom? This is exactly what world renowned musician and actor/producer, Steven Van Zandt, set out to achieve with the Rock and Roll Forever Foundation and TeachRock.org. Joining alongside Steven is the Chairman of the Rock and Roll Foundation, David Roth. "The arts inspire and engage. Music engages you, it engages your soul. It engages you to your very core. That is exactly the goal we have for every classroom".
After 12 years of building a curriculum on the foundations of music, TeachRock is now offering over 150 lessons entirely for free. Currently, there are more than 25,000 t…
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11 Jan 2020
41: Humanity's Capacity For Teaching with Nicholas Christakis
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Author of Connected and Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of A Good Society, Nicholas Christakis joins us to discuss the human being's innate ability to teach and learn from one another, how societies are inherently good, and the negative externalities of emerging tech.
Nicholas is the Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University. His work is in the fields of network science, biosocial science, and behavior genetics. He directs the Human Nature Lab and is the Co-Director of the Yale Institute for Network Science. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2006; the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2010; and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017. He was also a speaker for the WISE 2019 Summit.
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28 Dec 2019
40: Before High Tech High with Larry Rosenstock
Founding Principal of High Tech High and the seventh WISE Prize for Education laureate, Larry Rosenstock, reminisces previous experiences throughout his life and how those experiences inspired him to create an innovative network of American charter schools.
Larry is recognized for his lifelong dedication to rethinking K-12 learning and tackling inequality through education. He has pioneered the concept of project-based education – the idea that students can and must learn crucial academic skills through hands-on projects that integrate multiple disciplines, engage their interest, and have an authentic purpose. His model also reimagines the role of teachers as “designers” who adapt their curricula and blend a variety of subjects based on the specific needs of each student.
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21 Dec 2019
39: Can Tech Accelerate Early Learning? with Dimitri Christakis
"We found that the typical 2 year old spends, on average, 20-30 minutes a day with their favorite toy. And we know that children will happily spend way more time with an iPad than they would with any traditional toy. If we think of these things as toys, they are not functioning the way any other toy has for millennia."
The introduction of technology as a tool for learning has always been a point of controversy among parents and researchers alike. Dr. Dimitri Christakis sits down with us to discuss the many implications of what technology can mean for the future of education and early childhood cognitive development.
He is a pediatrician, researcher, a parent, the George Adkins Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington, Director of the Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development at Seattle Children’s Research Institute, and an attending pediatrician at Seattle Children’s Hospital.
He is the author of over 230 original research articles, a textbook of pediatric…
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10 Dec 2019
38: Thinking Exponentially with Jason Silva
"Technology is advancing exponentially - that is the reason why the smartphone in your pocket today is a million times cheaper, smaller, and a thousand times more powerful than what used to be a 60 million dollar supercomputer 40 years ago."
World-renowned filmmaker and futurist, Jason Silva, joins us to discuss why human beings should unlearn linear thinking and relearn exponential thinking in the digital age. Jason is known for hosting the National Geographic Emmy-Nominated reality series, Brain Games, and for his insightful YouTube series, “Shots of Awe,” in which he explores various aspects of the human condition through philosophical micro-documentaries.
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15 Oct 2019
37: The Untapped Potential of The Refugee Workforce with Mursal Hedayat
Multi-award-winning entrepreneur and Founder & CEO of Chatterbox, Mursal Hedayat, joins us to discuss why it has become essential to create better support systems for the refugee workforce. A former refugee to the UK from Afghanistan herself, Mursal was inspired to create a platform that could recruit individuals from the large pool of untapped potential from the refugee community. Chatterbox combines AI-powered self-study courses alongisde algorithmically matched native language coaches from the refugee community. While clients can learn from a series of different languages, coaches earn a living and have a chance to reclaim their professional identities. Chatterbox was part of the 2018 WISE Accelerator Cohort and Mursal Hedayat will also be attending the 2019 WISE Summit.
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mursalhedayat/
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11 Sept 2019
36: Empowering Refugee Youth with Omar Al-Tal
Head of Education in Emergency at Mercy Corps, Omar Al-Tal, joins this episode to discuss his experience working with displaced youth in Jordan, Greece, and Iraq. Following our previous episode with Louka Parry on Social Emotional Learning, Omar also incorporates Social and Emotional Learning into his work with refugees on the ground. Omar describes himself as a storyteller and during our conversation he painted a vivid picture explaining why refugees are so keen to prioritize education and learning. He will be attending the 2019 WISE Summit as a speaker.
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Mercy Corps: https://www.mercycorps.org
Article about Omar's story: https://www.mercycorps.org/videos/jordan-syria/omars-vision-how-war-shaping-next-champions-peace
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2 Sept 2019
35: Social-Emotional Learning with Louka Parry
In the age of rapid technological advance, AI, and Machine Learning, the education community is increasingly looking for solutions for human beings to adapt to new environments and learn the latest in-demand skillsets. The latest buzzword to make the news is "Social-Emotional Learning". Here to tell us all about it and why it is important is Louka Parry, CEO and founder of The Learning Future, an organization that supports schools, systems and companies to thrive in tomorrow’s world. He has spent the last five years training thousands of educators and leaders globally to increase their positive impact. He will be attending WISE 2019 Summit as a speaker.
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19 Jul 2019
34: Elevating Wellbeing as a Strategic Concern with Steven MacGregor
Dr. Steven MacGregor, global expert in executive health and performance with PhD and Master's degree in Design Thinking, joins us to discuss wellbeing in the workplace, drawing ideas from his book 'Chief Wellbeing Officer'. Steven is a frequent keynote speaker and guest professor with experience in research and teaching at Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, IE, IMD, IESE, CEIBS and Pompeu Fabra. He has also trained with Olympic athletes, Tour de France riders and Ironman champions. International level Duathlete and former national champion currently racing for FC Barcelona. He will be attending the 2019 WISE Summit as a speaker.
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29 Jun 2019
33: Flipping Classrooms with Robert Talbert
Robert Talbert, Professor and Assistant Chair in the Mathematics Department at Grand Valley State University, joins this episode to discuss everything to do with flipped learning.
Robert wrote the book: Flipped Learning: A Guide for Higher Education Faculty, published by Stylus Publications in May 2017.
"I wrote this book because I've been teaching with flipped learning for a while (since 2009) and writing about it on my blog for about the same amount of time. During that time I've made a lot (!) of mistakes and figured a lot of things out. I wanted to collect everything I know about flipped learning --- along with some research, theoretical foundations, history, and practical examples --- and put it in one volume. I'm convinced that flipped learning is the way of the future in higher education and I want to give faculty in all walks of higher ed a handbook for how to get started and keep going." - Robert Talbert
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17 Jun 2019
32: Gamification with Yu-kai Chou
Pioneer of gamification, Yu-kai Chou joins us to discuss the many ways of incorporating the elements of play into learning. Since beginning his gamified ventures in the early 2000s, Yu-kai has become known for creating Octalysis, a gamification framework which meticulously covers every important core necessary to make anything in your life more gamified and interesting. His book, 'Actionable Gamification' was published in 2015.
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Follow Yu-Kai: https://twitter.com/yukaichou
Yu-kai's website: https://yukaichou.com
Octalysis Prime: http://join.octalysisprime.com/op-so/
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31 May 2019
31: Envisioning The Future of Work (Part 2)
Our last episode featured three guest speakers we met in WISE@Paris, where they shared their thoughts on the future of work and employment. Episode 31 continues where we left off and brings three new faces to the spotlight: Marion Voillot, Nicolas Sadirac, and Karim Sy.
Marion is a PhD student at the Center of Research and Interdisciplinarity in Paris (CRI) and co-founder of Lab Premiers Cris.
Nicolas is the former head of non-profit coding school '42'. He recently co-founded 'Zone 01'. Karim is the founder of non-profit Jokkolabs, an innovation and entrepreneurship platform focused on Africa.
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Marion's Twitter: https://twitter.com/marion_voillot?lang=en
Karim's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ksyDaily
CRI Paris: http://www.cri-paris.org
School 42: https://www.42.us.org
Jokkolabs: https://www.jokkolabs.net
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15 May 2019
30: Envisioning The Future of Work
10 years ago, the idea of a company using the internet to research candidates was a novelty. Now, having a bad online presence is considered to be detrimental. Before the rise of tech, work used to be all about the human element. Nowadays, companies are starting to use algorithms to find their ideal candidate. How should human beings respond to this rapid technological advancement? Samir Saran of the Observer Research Foundation, Pierre Dubuc of OpenClassrooms, and Adrien Ledoux of JobTeaser join the discussion about the future of work.
Observer Research Foundation: https://www.orfonline.org
OpenClassrooms: https://openclassrooms.com
JobTeaser: https://www.jobteaser.com
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28 Apr 2019
29: Tackling Youth Unemployment with Mona Mourshed
Recent trends of increasing global youth unemployment have sparked debate on the return on investment for higher education. Mona Mourshed founded Wise Awards 2018 winner - Generation: You Employed, with an aim of connecting education to employability and providing the necessary skills required for a competitive job market.
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3 Apr 2019
28: Making Higher Education Accessible with Ben Nelson
How do you create the best higher education experience without having the preconcieved notions or burdens of an existing institution. CEO and founder of Minerva, Ben Nelson, talks to WISE Words about how Minerva University aims to set the standard for other prestigious universities to follow.
- Minerva website:
https://www.minerva.kgi.edu
- Learn about other education initiatives on our website: https://www.wise-qatar.org
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26 Mar 2019
27: Putting Well-Being into Practice - Project Spotlight
Following our last episode with Dr. Richard Davidson, we talked to four aspiring individuals from around the world who are advocating for well-being's inclusion in education from an early age. Please enjoy the last episode of March and be sure to check out the links below to learn more about the guest speakers and their work.
- Zarlasht Halaimzai, Director of Refugee Trauma Initiative
https://www.refugeetrauma.org
- Greta Rossi, Co-founder of Recipes for Wellbeing, Ākāśa Innovation, Pitch Your Failure and an Ashoka ChangemakerXchange Facilitator
http://www.recipesforwellbeing.org
- Talia Kaufman, Programs Director of Skateistan
https://www.skateistan.org
- Jennifer Szafran Dillard, PE Teacher at Qatar Academy Al Wakra
https://bit.ly/2FsQ1Op
You can learn more about well-being and many other initiatives on the WISE website: https://www.wise-qatar.org
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19 Mar 2019
26: Why Well-Being Matters with Dr. Richard Davidson
Why is it that some people are more vulnerable to life's challenges while others are more resiliant? Our guest speaker, Dr. Richard Davidson of the University of Wisconsin, has sought to answer this question through his groundbreaking research on emotion and the brain. According to Davidson, well-being is a skill which requires guidance and practice like any other. Mastering the science behind this fact is the key to making a kinder, wiser, and more compassionate world. Find out more about his findings in this episode.
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13 Feb 2019
25: Findings in Learning Sciences, A Revolution for Education?
This episode we meet three practitioners who are putting in place education methods, solutions, and policies that tackle the mismatch between how we teach and how our brain functions. They also share how they use findings in educational neuroscience to shift educational practices from standardization to personalization.
This episode was recorded during a webinar with members from the WISE community:
Ondine Bullot, CEO and Founder, Better Kids www.betterkids.education/
Elliot Washor, Co-Director, Big Picture Learning www.bigpicture.org/
Rogers Kamugisha, National Design and Training Manager, Educate! www.experienceeducate.org/
You can view the original webinar here: youtu.be/WBrXdLW0ihg
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29 Jan 2019
24: Who Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up? with Dr. Ger Graus
How often have you been asked “What do you want to be when you grow up?” we challenge that question with the Director of Education at KidZania, Dr Ger Graus.
We hope you enjoy this episode between our host Stavros and Dr Graus, as we learn about the findings from KidZania around the impact of role-models and how they form career aspirations from a very young age.
Follow Dr Graus on Twitter @GerGraus, and learn more about KidZania here: https://kidzania.com/en
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15 Jan 2019
Part 2: Helping Innovations Spread
Our first episode of the year features Jim Shelton and Rebecca Winthrop to bring you a macro-level view of education and access. We also find out the underlying challenges that may give us clues to answer the question: how do we take the luck out of education?
This two-part episode begins with some of the different facets that contribute to inequality and the second part will look at what we can do to make sure that every young person, regardless of their background, is able to pursue their education.
Jim Shelton is the former Head of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s Education division, and also the former Deputy Secretary of the United States Department of Education. You can follow Jim on Twitter @JIMSEDU, and find out more about CZI here: chanzuckerberg.com/
Dr Rebecca Winthrop is the Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution. You can follow Rebecca on Twitter @RebeccaWinthrop, and find out more about Brookings here: www.broo…
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15 Jan 2019
Part 1: Underlying Challenges of Inequality in Education
Our first episode of the year features Jim Shelton and Rebecca Winthrop to bring you a macro-level view of education and access. We also find out the underlying challenges that may give us clues to answer the question: how do we take the luck out of education?
This two-part episode begins with some of the different facets that contribute to inequality and the second part will look at what we can do to make sure that every young person, regardless of their background, is able to pursue their education.
Jim Shelton is the former Head of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s Education division, and also the former Deputy Secretary of the United States Department of Education. You can follow Jim on Twitter @JIMSEDU, and find out more about CZI here: chanzuckerberg.com/
Dr Rebecca Winthrop is the Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution. You can follow Rebecca on Twitter @RebeccaWinthrop, and find out more about Brookings here: www.broo…
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15 Jan 2019
Welcome to Season 2
Our host, Stavros Yiannouka, shares a warm welcome with fellow producers of WISE Words, Sarah Fayyad and Vesta Gheibi.
We discuss some highlights from 2018 (including some funny moments) and share some of our thoughts for what's to come in 2019 for Season 2.
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20 Nov 2018
22: WISE@Accra Special Episode
In this final episode of the season we bring to you a special recording from WISE@Accra. The episode is narrated by WISE's very own Sarah Fayyad.
As a former teacher herself, Sarah shares her insight and the voices of our community to understand the crucial role of the community in ensuring quality and access to education.
We hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we loved making it. Please stay tuned for a very exciting season in 2019!
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10 Oct 2018
21: Sharing Knowledge for Consumption with Alan Greenberg
This episode features an interesting discussion between Stavros and Alan Greenberg, exploring what it takes to make education accessible in an age of consumption.
Alan Greenberg is currently the Director of Wideacademy and former head of Education at Apple. During his time at Apple he became involved in what has become a notable contribution to the podcast movement.
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25 Sept 2018
20: Prioritizing Education as a Nation with Rebeca Grynspan
In this episode, Stavros talks to Rebeca Grynspan about what it takes to make education an actual priority for an entire nation. What are the trade-offs? What are the different opportunities? And how does prioritizing education looks like for one nation in Latin America?
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11 Sept 2018
19: Exposing Youth to Entrepreneurship with Emily McHugh
In this episode, Stavros talks to Emily McHugh to discuss the value of exposing youth to entrepreneurship.
Emily McHugh is the author of "The Little Girl's Guide to Entrepreneurship: What I Know Now That I Sure Wish I Knew Then." Emily takes you on a journey starting with the seeds of entrepreneurship that were planted at an early age on a farm in Jamaica to the founding of her award-winning design company Casauri.
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28 Aug 2018
18: The Power of Local Solutions for Girls' Education with Dolores Dickson
In this episode, we discuss the importance of local solutions in creating opportunities for education, particularly for girls, and the return effects this can have for their communities and beyond.
Stavros talks to Dolores Dickson from CAMFED (Campaign for Female Education) to learn from her experience supporting girls and young women to go to school and step up as leaders and entrepreneurs in their communities.
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14 Aug 2018
17. Helping Nations to Empower Young People with Steve Cumming
In this episode we try to understand what it means to meaningfully engage with young people in determining their impact on policies and employment.
Stavros talks to Steve Cumming from the MasterCard Foundation to learn from his expertise in nation-wide development.
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24 Jul 2018
16: Technology Empowering Girls with Regina Honu
In this episode of WISE Words we meet Regina Honu and find out how her story helped shape the incredible work she's doing to empower the next generation, especially girls, with tech skills.
Regina is the CEO of Soronko Solutions, and the first human-centred design school in Ghana, Soronko Academy. Regina is also an alumna of Ashesi University.
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3 Jul 2018
15: Educating Ethical Leaders with Patrick Awuah
On this week's episode, Stavros Yiannouka sits down with Dr. Patrick Awuah founder and president of Ashesi University to discuss the African education eco-system, higher ed and how can ethical leaders transform a continent.
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19 Jun 2018
14: Biotechnology and Gene Editing with Rachel Haurwitz
On this episode of WISE Words, Stavros Yiannoukka is joined by co-founder of Caribou Biosciences, Rachel Haurwitz as they discuss science, gene editing and CRISPR-based technologies.
Rachel Haurwitz:
Website: www.cariboubio.com
WISE:
Twitter: @WISE_Tweets
YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/WISEQatar
Instagram: www.instagram.com/wiseqatar/
Website: www.wise-qatar.org/
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4 Jun 2018
13: Radical Redesign of Maths Education with Conrad Wolfram
Conrad Wolfram has been a prominent proponent of education reform in mathematics to rebuild curriculums towards a computer-based mathematics.
Join Stavros Yiannouka in this episode to discover what computer-based maths is and the applications of computational thinking.
Conrad Wolfram:
Twitter: @conradwolfram
Website: www.conradwolfram.com
WISE:
Twitter: @WISE_Tweets
YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/WISEQatar
Instagram: www.instagram.com/wiseqatar/
Website: www.wise-qatar.org/
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22 May 2018
12: Making Higher Education Equitable in the US with Eduardo Padrón
In this episode of WISE Words, Stavros Yiannouka talks to the President of Miami Dade College, Eduardo Padrón to discuss the model of community college and the importance of making education equitable in the US.
Eduardo Padrón:
Twitter: @EduardoJPadron
Website: www.mdc.edu/about/
WISE:
Twitter: @WISE_Tweets
YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/WISEQatar
Instagram: www.instagram.com/wiseqatar/
Website: www.wise-qatar.org/
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8 May 2018
11: Action-Based Education with Billy Grayson
In this episode of WISE Words, Stavros Yiannouka and Billy Grayson discuss Grayson's interesting education background and how it equipped him to take a multidisciplinary approach to problem solving.
Billy Grayson:
Twitter: @GraysonBilly
Website: https://www.bbstrat.com/
WISE:
Twitter: @WISE_Tweets
YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/WISEQatar
Instagram: www.instagram.com/wiseqatar/
Website: www.wise-qatar.org/
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17 Apr 2018
10: Experiential Learning in Rural Areas with Meagan Fallone
In this episode, Stavros Yiannouka sits down with founder and CEO of Barefoot College, Meagan Fallone, to learn about how vocational training can effectively be inclusive and contextual.
Meagan Fallone:
Twitter: @barefootmfc
Website: www.barefootcollege.org
WISE:
Twitter: @WISE_Tweets
YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/WISEQatar
Instagram: www.instagram.com/wiseqatar/
Website: www.wise-qatar.org/
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3 Apr 2018
09: Why We Need Entrepreneurship in Education with Yao Zhang
On this episode of WISE Words, Stavros Yiannouka sits down with founder and CEO of Roboterra, Inc., Yao Zhang to discuss her beginnings in the Chinese schooling system and entrepreneurship within education.
Yao Zhang:
Twitter: @zhangyaoy
Website: www.roboterra.com
WISE:
Twitter: @WISE_Tweets
YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/WISEQatar
Instagram: www.instagram.com/wiseqatar/
Website: www.wise-qatar.org/
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20 Mar 2018
08: Navigating Media with Yalda Hakim
In this week's episode of WISE Words, Yalda Hakim and Stavros Yiannouka discuss identity and the importance of media literacy.
Yalda Hakim:
Twitter: @BBCYaldaHakim
WISE:
Twitter: @WISE_Tweets
YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/WISEQatar
Instagram: www.instagram.com/wiseqatar/
Website: www.wise-qatar.org/
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5 Mar 2018
07: Bridging the Education Gap with Shannon May
On this episode of WISE Words, Stavros Yiannouka sits down with Shannon May to discuss the beginnings of Bridge International Academies and why the Bridge model works. They also address some of the criticisms Bridge has received over the years.
Shannon May:
Twitter: @drshannonmay
Website: www.bridgeinternationalacademies.com
WISE:
Twitter: @WISE_Tweets
YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/WISEQatar
Instagram: www.instagram.com/wiseqatar/
Website: www.wise-qatar.org/
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22 Feb 2018
06: PISA and the Data Behind Successful School Systems with Andreas Schleicher
On this week's episode, Stavros Yiannouka sits down with German statistician, Andreas Schleicher, to discuss PISA, what makes a successful education system, and they get the chance to address some of the criticisms behind standardized tests.
Andreas Schleicher:
Twitter: @SchleicherOECD
Website: http://www.oecd.org/education/
WISE:
Twitter: @WISE_Tweets
YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/WISEQatar
Instagram: www.instagram.com/wiseqatar/
Website: www.wise-qatar.org/
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6 Feb 2018
05: François Taddei
In this episode, Stavros Yiannouka and François Taddei discuss the value of nurturing young curious minds, the ethos of scientific research, and bringing education to disadvantaged communities.
François Taddei:
Twitter: @FrancoisTaddei
Website: https://cri-paris.org
WISE:
Twitter: @WISE_Tweets
YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/WISEQatar
Instagram: www.instagram.com/wiseqatar/
Website: www.wise-qatar.org/
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16 Jan 2018
04: Chimamanda Adichie
In this episode, Stavros Yiannouka sits down with award-winning Nigerian author, Chimamanda Adichie to discuss storytelling, feminism, and education's role in creating accurate historical narratives in post-colonial times.
Chimamanda Adichie:
Website: www.chimamanda.com/
WISE:
Twitter: @WISE_Tweets
YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/WISEQatar
Instagram: www.instagram.com/wiseqatar/
Website: www.wise-qatar.org/
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1 Jan 2018
03: Sebastian Thrun
WISE CEO, Stavros Yiannouka is joined by the co-founder and chairman of Udacity, Sebastian Thrun in this week's episode where they discuss the beginnings of Udacity, nanodegrees, and the many uses of artificial intelligence within education.
Sebastian Thrun:
Twitter: @sebastianthrun
WISE:
Twitter: @WISE_Tweets
YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/WISEQatar
Instagram: www.instagram.com/wiseqatar/
Website: www.wise-qatar.org/
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18 Dec 2017
02: Fareed Zakaria
Join WISE CEO, Stavros Yiannouka as he and Fareed Zakaria discuss the importance of a liberal education in a time where STEM education is seen as the surest path to success.
Fareed Zakaria:
Twitter: @FareedZakaria
Website: fareedzakaria.com
WISE:
Twitter: @WISE_Tweets
YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/WISEQatar
Website: www.wise-qatar.org/
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20 Nov 2017
01: Kishore Mahbubani
Join WISE CEO, Stavros Yiannouka, as he and Kishore Mahbubani discuss how education could better prepare people for the return of Asia.
Kishore Mahbubani:
Twitter: @mahbubani_k
Website: mahbubani.net
WISE:
Twitter: @WISE_Tweets
YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/WISEQatar
Instagram: www.instagram.com/wiseqatar/
Website: www.wise-qatar.org/
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15 Nov 2017
Introducing WISE Words
Join Stavros Yiannouka, CEO of WISE, and Ameena Hussain, Director of Programing at WISE, as they introduce WISE Words, and discuss the many facets of WISE and education.
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