Listen to the story {Play} The French government is upgrading its digital strategy for education. This, after it, since March 2022 has involved all stakeholders in education including the State, its operators, local authorities, publishers and EdTechs, and associations to strategically reflect on digital technology for education. This with focus …
Listen to the story {Play} When the winds of change are blowing, some build shelters, while others are building windmills. In the digital society the windmills to a large extent consist of creativity, understanding, know how and talent. In other words, simplifying for people the ability to develop and prosper. …
Listen to the story {Play} The Digital Educational Policy Pact in Germany since the start of the 2019 term has generated federal funds of 1.5 billion euros to expand the digital infrastructure in schools. At the same time, ongoing projects worth 3.1 billion euros have been approved. Federal Education Minister …
Listen to the story {Play} Should the school only teach humanistic values and focus on systemically managing the state’s needs for workforce competence? Or should it use humanistic pedagogical methods where the goal is to empower the learner’s formation and individual choices of life path? The latter also includes the …
Listen to the story {Play} Michael Bodekaer Jensen is both an EdTech innovator and a multi-disciplinary academic. He is a co-founder and CEO of Labster. After two disruptive years, many students resemble Ferris Bueller’s bored classmates. Exposure quarantines pushed remote classroom learning from the occasional into the commonplace. Both teachers …
Listen to the story {Play} The type of education a child receives appears to influence how they represent knowledge in long-term memory, according to a new study published in the journal Science of Learning. The findings indicate that Montessori students tend to have a more richly connected network of semantic …
Listen to the story {Play} Deepfake crime is a real and present danger for businesses. Last year, it cost one bank alone $35 million in a single scam, yet many businesses are still ignoring the risks, partly thanks to a lack of cyber security skills at leadership level. With Deepfake technology …
Listen to the story {Play} Whether it be in education or in the workplace, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused substantial disruption but also opened up some big opportunities for change in how people work together. For example, organisations that have been looking for ways to become more flexible, innovative, or …
Listen to the story {Play} Like in the 13th Century when a borderless network of universities began to spread the internet was from the beginning a network of scientists beyond the reach of the national governments. Later this developed into a global and anarchistic discussion forum to on the brink …
Listen to the story {Play} A report called “Blockchain in Education” from the European Commission shows the prospects blockchain technology impact on education and its potential to transform the field. The main conclusion is that: “Blockchain technology can help improve old models of data management and bring benefits to learners …
