Listen to the story {Play} Imagine a classroom where textbooks whisper secrets of your strengths and weaknesses, and lectures morph to match your unique learning style. This isn’t science fiction, it’s the dawn of AI-powered education, and it’s shaking the foundations of traditional pedagogy. It’s a Education Revolution! One key …
Listen to the story {Play} The Danish government is launching a new initiative to improve the quality of primary schools by liberating pupils, teachers and school boards. The plan includes: More freedom and influence for school boards More freedom for schools to make decisions about their own curricula and teaching …
Listen to the story {Play} Luxembourg’s new basic education plan, which is scheduled to come into force in 2026, will focus on digitality and wellbeing. The plan, which was unveiled this week, is the result of a vast consultation process with stakeholders in the education system. The new plan is …
Listen to the story {Play} Three Danish Ministers for research, education and digitization write that generative artificial intelligence like Chat GPT is excellent tools to transform the curriculum to become better adapted to the digital age. The article is a response to an opposition party in Denmark want to some …
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 …
The Luxembourg Minister of Education Children and Youth, Claude Meisch, and Jeff Kaufmann, campaign coordinator at BEE SECURE, have launched the campaign “Family screens”. At the launch, the Minister pointed out the many obvious advantages of using digital media in education for children and teenagers e.g. in comparison with television …
The University of Delaware is now introducing Zenbo, a social robot that is teaching school children cybersecurity. With a focus on becoming safer digital citizens and how to safeguard information online. Zenbo is about 60 centimetres tall and is using preprogrammed well-known children stories, like Little Red Riding Hood, that …
What would happen if you got a 15-20% free spaces to learn and work on your own projects during your working hours? Google’s 20% time has resulted in, for instance, Gmail among other things, while the outcome of 3M’s 15% time is e.g. the Post-it. However, in order to connect …
Removing National tests After some pilot projects on future assessments in school, the Danish Government is now planning to approve of removing national tests. With the goal to completely remove national tests on the lowest levels in primary school. Ten municipalities Aarhus, Albertslund, Esbjerg, Frederikssund, Hvidovre, Kerteminde, Næstved, Randers, Sønderborg …
Further training of teachers in programming and more funding for digital learning books. This is the Norwegian Government’s new deal to speed up the digitization of school. During 2019 379 teachers will receive training in programming. This more than twice as much that received education within this field during 2018. …
