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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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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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Follow Bisk: https://twitter.com/BiskVentures

Bisk Ventures website: https://www.biskventures.com

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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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Follow Vicky: https://twitter.com/ColbertVicky

Escuela Nueva: https://bit.ly/34DY1Ja

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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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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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Mos: https://www.mos.com

Follow Amira: https://twitter.com/Mira404

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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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Dimitri's publications: https://bit.ly/317asfK

Follow Dimitri: https://bit.ly/3hadlCf

Dimitri's previous episode: https://bit.ly/3kVsd9W

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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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Buy Conrad's book: http://themathsfix.org

Conrad's other episode: https://bit.ly/2DaOvmQ

Conrad's website: http://www.conradwolfram.com

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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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Geekie: https://www2.geekie.com.br

WISE profile: https://bit.ly/2Ddn2Rl

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

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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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Berlin Fang's website: https://berlinfangblog.wordpress.com

Ten Common Myths about Educational Innovations: https://bit.ly/2UT08Vs

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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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Relevant links:

Tabshoura: http://www.tabshoura.com

Ustad Mobile: https://www.ustadmobile.com/lms/

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