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virtual reality

Podcast Episode

Educators have pointed advice for tech companies building the metaverse

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

EdSurge

Thursday, February 17, 2022

BAMYAN, AFGHANISTAN - NOVEMBER 8, 2021: Tenth-grade pupils attend a lesson at a secondary school for girls. Upon the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, the Taliban movement (banned in Russia) declared the establishment of its control over the whole country on September 6, a new government formed a day later. Among other reforms, the Taliban have also introduced a number of restrictions concerning education and employment for girls and women. Alexandra Kovalskaya/TASS.No use Russia.

Podcast Episode

Echidna Global Scholars: Better learning opportunities and life outcomes for girls and young women

Jennifer L. O’Donoghue, Nangyalai Attal, Arundhuti Gupta, Edem Dorothy Ossai, and Tran Thi Ngoc Tran

Thursday, December 23, 2021

An empty computer science classroom is seen at the University of Somalia in Mogadishu, July 13, 2017. Picture taken July 13, 2017. REUTERS/Feisal Omar

Podcast Episode

Computer science education builds skills for life

Michael Hansen, Emiliana Vegas, and Fred Dews

Friday, November 19, 2021

A mother and child look at a globe

Podcast Episode

S1 Ep26: Rebecca Winthrop, The Brookings Institution

Rebecca Winthrop

Remaking Tomorrow

Thursday, November 18, 2021

A girl gestures as she takes part in a demonstration as part of a global day of action on climate change at the school in Khayelitsha township near Cape Town, South Africa, September 25, 2020. REUTERS/Sumaya Hisham

Podcast Episode

Girls’ education is key to climate change solutions

Christina Kwauk, Lucia Fry, Raju Kumar Narzary, and Fred Dews

Friday, April 30, 2021

Child studies at her desk

Podcast Episode

Post-pandemic priorities for education part I: The United States

Rebecca Winthrop

WISE Words

Friday, March 19, 2021

Children learning in a classroom

Podcast Episode

The Millions Learning project: Scaling quality education to children and youth

Jenny Perlman Robinson and Molly Curtiss Wyss

Center for International Development at Harvard University

Friday, December 4, 2020

Kindergarten teacher Princess Bryant and paraprofessional Emily Lichtenstein (L) meet their incoming students and parents remotely before the first day of classes in the new school year at the Tynan Elementary School in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., September 18, 2020. Bryant will begin the school year teaching classes virtually from her classroom because of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

Podcast Episode

Playful learning: A new path to education reform

Helen Shwe Hadani, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, and Fred Dews

Friday, December 4, 2020

education technology

Podcast Episode

Education, disrupted

Jenny Perlman Robinson and Emiliana Vegas

New Foundations, The Economist Intelligence Unit

Monday, November 30, 2020

student working on laptop

Podcast Episode

How the pandemic can accelerate scaling educational innovations

Rebecca Winthrop and Jenny Perlman Robinson

Silver Lining for Learning

Monday, October 12, 2020

Port-au-Prince, Haiti.- In the April 24, 2020 file photo, children in Haiti try to educate themselves amid the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19). The socioeconomic effects of the coronavirus pandemic could set back "decades" the progress made in the education of girls and adolescents in Latin America and the Caribbean, many of which may "never return to the classroom", as it has warned this Tuesday, International Plan. The NGO estimates that currently some 500 million children and young people around the world are not receiving distance education, "something that is having devastating consequences in Latin America and the Caribbean", where more than 95 percent of minors have remained outside of classrooms without many of them being able to follow classes online.

Podcast Episode

What’s the state of global girls’ education during COVID?

Christina Kwauk and Adrianna Pita

Friday, October 9, 2020

Filipino climate activists hold placards calling for climate action in participation with the global climate change protests, in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines, September 25, 2020. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez

Podcast Episode

Environmental racism and the struggle for climate justice

Christina Kwauk, Marinel Ubaldo, and Justin Worland

Tuesday, September 29, 2020

School kids wearing protective mask in classroom and raising hands

Podcast Episode

How COVID-19 is changing education—not always for the worse

Rebecca Winthrop

Trend Lines

Thursday, September 17, 2020

Students use tablet PCs as they have a lesson in the classroom at a primary school in Langfang city, south China's Hebei province, 24 April 2018.A primary school in Langfang city of Hebei province has introduced tablet PCs into class to facilitate the mathematics teaching. Every student is equipped with a tablet computer in class. The primary school is the first piloted school for smart class in the city. Currently, electronic devices have been applied to seven schools.No Use China. No Use France.

Podcast Episode

How education technology can improve learning for all students

Alejandro J. Ganimian, Emiliana Vegas, and Fred Dews

Friday, September 11, 2020

African children in a koranic school classroom, Tonkpi Region, Man, Ivory Coast.NO USE FRANCE

Podcast Episode

Scaling impact in education to reach the world’s most vulnerable children

Jenny Perlman Robinson, Patrick Hannahan, and Fred Dews

Friday, August 7, 2020