Old-School: The Skills That Made Us & How They’re Changing

Funders are always looking for innovative new ideas with the potential to change the world, but how do they decide which ones to back and which to leave alone? In this exciting new format @GESF, would-be changemakers will have just a few minutes to pitch their new projects to a judging panel of leading donors who may choose to support or reject the proposals.

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Andrew teaches at Parkfield Community School near the deprived Bordesley Green area of Birmingham, which is home to a considerable mix of ethnicities and where over nine in ten pupils speak English as an additional language. His “No Outsiders” programme teaches inclusiveness and diversity. Andrew has extended this ethos to parents through the use of parent/child workshops and he has extended the programme, with schools taking forward “No Outsiders” in many cities across the UK. Andrew now also uses “No Outsiders” as a tool to reduce the potential for radicalization. Andrew also runs a “Parkfield Ambassadors” after-school club that creates opportunities for children at his school where 99% of students are Muslim to meet others of different races, religions and cultures around Birmingham. Take a class with one of the top 10 finalists for the 2019 Global Teacher Prize. Each live, 30-minute lesson will showcase the different methods, learnings and values that helped to secure the teacher's place in the final of the US$1 million prize.

 

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Leave no one behind. This is among the most aspirational global commitments of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Migration and displacement are two global challenges, and interact with education in many ways. These links affect those who move, those who stay and those who host immigrants, refugees or other displaced populations. Hear the latest research on these issues in a conversation with Bilal Barakat, Senior Policy Analyst of UNESCO's landmark Global Education Monitoring (GEM) report. Over a year in the making, the report analyses all 195 education systems around the world and presents evidence on the implications of different types of migration and displacement for education but also the impact that reforming curricula, pedagogy and teacher preparation can have on embracing diversity. The report also presents the annual analysis of progress towards each of the education targets in the new Sustainable Development Goals framework.

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It's well known that girls are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects, but what can be done to address the gap? Join the Change in the Classroom discussion between Global Teacher Prize finalists and expect contributors on the pervasive barriers to girls in STEM, and how teachers, policy-makers and parents can work together to enable girls to succeed.

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What does a teacher need to know in order to be able to teach creativity? Can creativity truly be taught? Join this public briefing where Global Teacher Prize finalists and expert contributors debate the role of teachers and the wider education sector in fostering the core values of creativity, originality and individuality, as well as in building the skills that students need to move from copying a masterpiece to creating their own work of art.

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Sophie Bailey, founder, EdTech Podcast hosts a panel with teacher practitioners. They share with an audience of EdTech entrepreneurs how EdTech is shaping their classrooms and what they are looking for to improve student and teacher experiences. Hosted at the Global Education and Skills Forum, this is a unique opportunity for thirty EdTech start-ups selected from a global search and early rounds of pitching, to hear directly from those who use technology with students.

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For years, Yuhyun Park has worked to transform our understanding of digital literacy. Through her pioneering and award-winning work on how technology intersects with education, she developed a digital citizenship education platform for children in South Korea and Singapore as well as the Digital Intelligence Quotient (DQ) education framework. Today, she oversees numerous initiatives aimed at helping children to navigate the digital world safely. Hear this influential changemaker talk about her life, her work and why she believes we need to do more to prepare our children for the digital future.

 

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What is it like to go to school in the country with the biggest education system in the world? Learn from leading Chinese educators and education investors as they share their insights from the field. Public Briefings deliver the latest news, analysis and thinking on the key issues that are changing the education and skills sectors. In this series of one-hour discussions, delegates will hear from expert contributors on who is changing the world, and what changemaking looks like across the different strands of GESF 2019.

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The education outlook in countries across Sub-Saharan Africa is absolutely critical to global efforts to deliver access to universal quality education by 2030.

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Creativity motivates students, attracts employers, but is rarely taught in school. In this talk at GESF 2019, the creator of the Hour of Code explains why computer science is fundamental for all students, and how over 30 countries have taken steps to make it part of the core curriculum.

 

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