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Apply for the WISE Edtech Accelerator before 14 April: http://bit.ly/40dVNLQ ------ 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 Ed...

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 disru...

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 t...

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 profes...

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...

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 communi...

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...

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 conte...

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 Ame...

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 Associa...

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 dow...

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 i...

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 MacArt...

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. Additionall...

Meet the 2020 WISE Awards winners: https://bit.ly/3kNrBTq ------------------------------------------------- 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 mill...

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, Th...

2020 WISE Accelerator: bit.ly/2020-21WISEAcceleratorCohort ------------------------------------------------- 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...

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 win...

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. ----------------------------------------------...

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,...

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 Ins...

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 techno...

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, Ge...

Register for Education Disrupted, Education Reimagined Part II: bit.ly/3cA8uqY ------------------------------------------------- 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 a...

Register for Education Disrupted, Education Reimagined Part II: https://bit.ly/3cA8uqY -------------------------------------------------- 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 joi...