Category: Learning
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
by Zahirul Islam | Mar 20, 2024 | Learning
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
by Mike Douse | Mar 11, 2024 | Learning
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
by Tassew Woldehanna and Chanie Ejigu Berhie | Feb 8, 2024 | Learning
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
by Loran Pieck and Lieve Leroy | Feb 7, 2024 | Learning
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
by Abdirazak Haybe | Jan 15, 2024 | Learning
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
by Colin Bangay | Jan 10, 2024 | Climate Change, Learning
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…
by Paulina Valenzuela | Jan 8, 2024 | 2023 UKIFET Conference, Learning
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
by Fergal Turner, Emily Tusiime, Devotha Mlay and Maurits Spoelder | Dec 20, 2023 | 2023 UKIFET Conference, Assessment
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
by Mike Douse | Dec 19, 2023 | Learning
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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Greening schools: Visible thinking routines for leveraging environmental education in Pakistan
by Razia Iram Sadik and Maham Afzal | Dec 12, 2023 | 2023 UKIFET Conference, Climate Change, Learning
Green school programmes take on various forms and names worldwide, but at their core, they embrace a “whole school approach". This approach seeks to involve students, educators, and the local community to enhance the school environment and inspire students to identify and address environmental issues at the local level.
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The role of arts-based methods in promoting social justice and peace education in post-conflict contexts
by Rajib Timalsina | Dec 11, 2023 | Learning
The importance of foundational literacy cannot be overstated, as it is essential for the future success of students. Across the world, large proportions of children are not acquiring foundational reading and numeracy skills, even after spending several years in school.
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