To mark International Women’s Day, photographers at Panos Pictures have teamed up with the Internet Society as part of the Shine the Light campaign to document women from 11 countries who are using technology to make things happen for their …
The New Yorker: Learn Different – Silicon Valley disrupts education.
“Seen from the outside, AltSchool Brooklyn, a private school that opened in Brooklyn Heights last fall, does not look like a traditional educational establishment.” ─ Read item ─
Times Higher Education: Ban academics talking to ministers? We should train them to do it.
Last month it was quietly announced that anyone receiving research grants from the state will be banned from lobbying “government and Parliament” on either policy issues or funding. The rule is said to be aimed principally at charities, but who knows the …
Ecosystems Within Ecosystems: Digital Schools Growing Their Community
In contemplating the digital evolution of the school and the creation of the desired school ecosystem appreciate that as your school’s digital ecosystem[1] grows so too will it interact with other local, regional and national ecosystems in a virtuous circle …
BBC News: Are laptops more important than desks in Kenya’s schools?
In theory, six-year-old Kenyan pupil Kizito Wafula could soon be using a government-funded laptop, but his school in the west of the country has no desks or chairs – and, crucially, no electricity to power it. ─ Read item ─
The Express Tribune: Pakistani documentary on female education bags second nomination
“The film has already managed to bag two nominations. Towards the end of last year, it was nominated for the Asia-Pacific Childs Right Awards and most recently for the Best Documentary Award Community Portraits at the New York Festival. However, …
YouTube: Flight of the Falcons
This documentary follows the remarkable journey of one schoolteacher and three of her students in Pakistan in their individual struggles against child marriage, corporal punishment, and societal pressures, in order to achieve a collective dream: empowering girls and women ─ …
Morning Star: Teachers vs the Germ
Pearson’s is at the heart of what’s become known as the Global Education Reform Movement (less affectionately, Germ). But what is Germ?” ─ Read item ─