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Following up on the Malala’s story: a Nobel Peace Prize candidate

Young Pakistani girl Malala Yousafzai raised her voice on behalf of many people around the world, calling for the right of education for all. Last monday the UNESCO made a tribute to her during the[…]

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Yong Zhao: World Class Education: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students

Notes from ‘Yong Zhao: World Class Education: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students‘ by Gerard Pagès i Camps Yong Zhao is currently Presidential Chair and Associate Dean for Global Education, College of Education at the University of Oregon.[…]

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Kurt Fischer: Connecting Mind, Brain, and Education

Notes from ‘Kurt Fischer: Connecting Mind, Brain, and Education‘ by Gerard Pagès i Camps   Kurt Fischer leads an international movement to connect biology and cognitive science to education, and is founding editor of the journal Mind,[…]

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Azra Naseem: Changing Pedagogy Through Faculty Professional Development in Blended Learning

Notes from ‘Azra Naseem: Changing Pedagogy Through Faculty Professional Development in Blended Learning‘ by Gerard Pagès i Camps Azra Naseem is a faculty member at the Aga Khan University (AKU) Pakistan. She also holds a management portfolio[…]

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Manuel Castells: Creative education for the Information Age: Mission Impossible?

Notes from ‘Manuel Castells: Creative education for the Information Age: Mission Impossible?‘ by Gerard Pagès i Camps ‘I’m going to talk about the Obstacles and let we will find the solutions’ Manuel Castells who understood very[…]

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“Maybe it’s a good thing education has not been an issue in this election”, Gene Carter. via @CNNSchools

  While the whole world is closely following up the election of the 45th president of USA, American educators and parents keep their eyes on two states: Georgia and Washington which vote today on the issue[…]

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A new development for the OLPC

The initiative One Laptop Per Child, which has distributed until now 3 million laptops to kids in 40 different countries worldwide, has undertaken a very encouraging experience. A few months ago they gave tablets to[…]

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The teenager who wanted to go to school

Updated on October 18th – Malala Yousafzai, the 14-year-old who was shot in the head by Taliban militants, was described to be “responding well to her care”, according to a hospital’s spokesman. The girl was[…]

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World Teachers’ Day – One more year taking the challenge of education

  World Teachers’ Day is held every year on October 5th. UNESCO created it in 1994 to celebrate teachers worldwide. The aim of this day is to mobilise support for teachers and to ensure that[…]

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Demo presentations have been selected

We are happy to announce the winners of the call for demos for the upcoming Seminar Transformative Changes in Education: System-wide-approach. As you know, we had two rounds of the call for demos and the Comittee[…]