Category: Learning
Learning and sharing from the Transforming Education for Sustainable Futures Network
The purpose of The Transforming Education for Sustainable Futures was to provide better understanding of how education can be transformed to support sustainable livelihoods, sustainable cities and communities and climate action in the contexts of India, Rwanda, Somalia/Somaliland and South Africa.
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Our education system is failing, not the students. But we can fix this
The recently-released PISA scores show declining performance among students across many European countries. While some education ministers rush to blame other ministers, students, teachers, or a lack of funding, and some others celebrate themselves for not failing quite like others, the real issue lies much deeper.
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Event highlights: Language and its critical role in education and training around the world
In collaboration with the British Council, UKFIET convened a full day’s workshop in London. The day was organised by academics and practitioners who are often frustrated by the limited attention paid to the language in which children learn and are assessed, educators teach and resources are written.
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How student leadership can create a sustainable future
Research says that students stay in school only 20% of their total time and spend 80% of their total time in their community. Keeping this dimension in mind, I developed a holistic model in 2018 named the Student Leadership Development Model (SLDM) which ensures the leadership development of students from…
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Forbidding the fundamental: the futile absurdity of banning smartphones from classrooms
Countries across the world (and international agencies that should know better) are calling for the outlawing of smartphones from schools. In this UKFIET Blog, Mike Douse explains how, in the Digital Age, this is the very opposite of what should be happening.
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Beyond Academic Learning Loss: The Effect of School Closures on Students’ Socio-Emotional Skills
An estimated 26 million students missed at least five months of school as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. During this time, the majority of pupils—notably the most disadvantaged—were not reached by efforts to support students' learning remotely.
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Facilitating blended professional development of school leaders in Rwanda with evolved trainer roles
Rwanda has been leading the way in digital transformation in education. A variety of policies exist which emphasise the use of ICTs in education to improve quality in teaching, learning and research, and consequently in CPD.
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Nurturing their futures: Empowering pastoralist children through education
Despite the climate crisis, pastoralists adapt and manage to maintain their way of life. In the era of digitalisation and technology advancement, pastoralist children face a digital divide and exclusion from technology usage.
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Lots of snakes but where are the ladders? Building environment-smart learning friendly schools responsive to extreme weather
Anyone who has ever been in a concrete-walled, corrugated iron-rooved building in the heat of the dry season or experienced the noise of a tropical rainstorm will appreciate how this can impact on learning and teaching.
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We tested UKFIET attendants on their Social and Emotional Learning skills. What we found out might surprise you…
Deciding what to measure reveals what we are aiming for, and thus what our priorities are. A learner’s empathy is certainly harder to measure than their capacity to add or multiply, but if they are only graded for math, we are inadvertently saying that is what students and teachers should…
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Who matters in Measuring What Matters – Notes on a creative session at the UKFIET 2023 conference
We wanted to take the subject of learning assessment, a serious and complex topic at the heart of many of the conferences discussions, and address it with a sense of fun and unstructured creativity.
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Education and Artificial Intelligence: Four conferences and acute myopia
Numerous dignitaries, academics and salespeople (but thus far no robots) are flocking to copious conferences, sundry seminars and voluminous workshops focussed on Education and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
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