This week at World Bank EduTech
week of September 20, 2021
“Education is an intense human interaction endeavor…”
We believe that technology — when effectively utilized — can be used to reimagine human connections. Teachers are central to learning and this week we invite you to learn more about our teacher-related events and announcements.
10 Global Champions Announced!
In partnership HundrED, we launched a contest to seek scalable and impactful solutions for teacher professional development using technology. The response was overwhelmingly positive. We received 435 innovation applications from 80 countries. The contest accepted applications in five languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese — with an aim to encourage representation from diverse contexts, resulting in submissions from across all continents. After a comprehensive selection process, the T4T team in partnership with HundrEd, UNESCO and several World Bank collaborators selected the 10 most impactful TPD with technologies globally. We’re pleased to share the list of the Top 10!
· Inspiring Teachers: Peer Coaching Platform (UK, Belize, Tanzania, India, Ghana, Rwanda, Uganda)
· Puentes Educativos (Nicaragua, Guatemala, Chile)
· OneSky for all children (Mongolia, Vietnam, China)
· Comunidad Atenea (Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay, Peru, Guatemala, Ecuador, Brazil, Colombia, Bolivia, Paraguay, Venezuela, US, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Spain, Panama, DR, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico)
· ProFuturo Digital Education (Morocco, Benin, Spain, Sierre Leone, Eswatini, Saint Lucia, Bahamas, Malawi, South Africa, Senegal, Rwanda, Liberia, Zimbabwe, Equatorial Guinea, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Angola, Madagascar, Nigeria, Guyana, Belize, Barbados, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Peru, Brazil, Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexico, Jordan Lebanon, Philippines)
· PerformEd (Ethiopia, Uganda, Lebanon, South Africa, UK, Egypt)
· Teach2030 (Nepal, Pakistan, Nigeria, Liberia, India, Ghana, South Africa, Jamaica, Zambia, Tanzania, UK)
· LeadNow! (Kenya)
· Global School Leaders (Kenya, Indonesia, Malaysia, India)
· Tu clase, tu país (Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile)
Each provides a wealth of experiences and good practices from which we can learn. Learn more in this announcement.
This initiative is part of the Continuous and Accelerated Learning (CAL) program “Teachers for a Changing World: Transforming Teacher Professional Development Spotlight” — also know as T4T .
Teacher’s Events: “Supporting Teachers to Accelerate Learning Recovery”
On September 16, our Teacher team launched Coach: Accelerating Learning by Improving In-Service Teacher Professional Development:
This event launch was part of a larger series of events designed to recognize, support, and promote teacher good practice. There is little doubt about the importance of teachers, but in the context of the pandemic their heroic work has been simply remarkable and Coach is here to help (tools and resources). On September 23, the team hosted the latest event in the series, Translating Research on Effective Teaching to Action.
Save the date! September 30 — Technology and Teacher Professional Development: Lessons from Innovations Across the Globe
As part of this series, we invite you to join us for the next event:
During the T4T event, policy makers, practitioners, and researchers will explore questions like:
- What are the essential factors when designing, implementing, and assessing teacher professional development programs using technology?
- What are the strategies to ensure sustainability in the use of technology to change teaching practices?
Guests include: Dr. Cher Ping Lim (Education University of Hong Kong), Dr. Ayesha Razzaque (Government representative from Pakistan), Dr. Pheneas Nkundabakura, (Government representative from Rwanda), the heads of LeadNow! and Inspiring Teachers, and Danny Gilliland (HundrED). World Bank Education Global Knowledge and Innovation Practice Manager Omar Arias will moderate the event, joined by World Bank Senior Education Specialist Manal Quota and World Bank Research Analyst Tracy Wilichowski.
🎧 Tune in to our podcast episode to learn more about this initiative! Supporting Teachers’ Continuous Professional Development in an Ever-Changing Classroom, available on Apple, Spotify, and Anchor.
New Podcast Episode! Building EdTech Innovation Hubs: a conversation with Finland’s Helsinki Education Hub and Turkey’s EdTech Innovation Hub ETKİM
Teachers are part of a broader education ecosystem and this week on our podcast our EdTech team members Robert Hawkins and Dean Kline are speaking with Finland’s Helsinki Education Hub and Turkey’s EdTech Innovation Hub ETKİM about building edtech innovation hubs and the World Bank’s newly created EdTech Innovation Hub Community of Practice. This episode is available on Apple, Spotify, and Anchor.
Mia-Stiina Heikkala, Lead Advisor, EdTech Start-Ups & Project Lead for Helsinki Education Hub, joins us to speak about the Helsinki Education Hub and how it brings education and the learning ecosystem actors together in Finland and globally. Finland has been at the forefront for many years and this initiative aims is to improve education and learning start ups’ product development, innovations, and productivity to generate and implement new innovations.
Mustafa Hakan Bucuk joins us from Turkey’s Ministry of Education to speak about Turkey’s EdTech Incubation and Innovation Hub-ETKİM and its importance as part of the Safe Schooling and Distance Education project being implemented by Turkey’s Ministry of National Education and the World Bank. The EdTech Innovation Hub, as a part of ETKİM, will be the main center of innovation, collaboration, clustering, research, development, and networking endeavors for the EdTech sector and all stakeholders to support content development, training, and blended digital classroom.
