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How can we truly grow as learning leaders? By embracing a continuous cycle of: ✨ Learning: Expanding our minds. ☄️Unlearning: Challenging our assumptions. 💫 Relearning: Reimagining our practice. By embracing this iterative cycle, we can become more effective, responsive, and innovative educators. 🔄 🔀 🔃 #LifelongLearning #InnovativeTeaching #GrowthandDevelopment Sketchnote by Sylvia Duckworth.

Traditional educational models, where teachers primarily convey knowledge at school, were developed when the average human lifespan was under 50 years and technological and social changes were much slower. Today, continuous learning throughout an individual’s life is essential. Education[*] must be reimagined to address urgent, unprecedented challenges like the climate crisis, the rise of generative AI, increasing inequalities, and ongoing conflicts. To effectively tackle these challenges, a long-term view is crucial for education to shape more inclusive, just, and sustainable futures. On December 3, the UNESCO International Forum on the Futures of Education 2024 continued with its second day, focusing on crucial themes that will influence the future of education. The keynote speech titled "The Right to Education Throughout Life in the Digital Era" explored how digitalization is transforming the core principles of lifelong education. This session also discussed related rights such as privacy, access to information, participation, and non-discrimination, emphasizing the importance of protecting these rights in an increasingly digital world. I’m sharing the link to the recording of the live broadcast in case you’re interested in watching some or all of the proceedings. --- [*]Clear is kind: Education refers to the broad process of acquiring knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes through various forms of learning experiences. It encompasses both formal and informal contexts, including self-learning, family guidance, community involvement, and cultural transmission. Education is lifelong, adaptive, and can happen anywhere, at any time. #LifelongLearning #RightToEducation #FuturesOfEducation 🔮🚸👩🏽💻

🚀 Celebrate Computer Science Education Week December 9 - 15, 2024 Computer Science Education Week is the perfect opportunity to inspire curiosity and creativity by dedicating a day to exploring AI. 💡Ignite students’ interest in technology and guide them to become the innovators and creators who will shape the future! 🤔 Wondering what you can do to strengthen your AI fluency while introducing students to ethical and responsible AI in STEM education? To make AI principles accessible to students with no prior knowledge, consider starting with relatable hands-on approaches. Introduce AI using everyday examples that students are familiar with, such as: 🔹Voice assistants like Siri or Alexa 🔹Recommendation systems on streaming services 🔹Image recognition in smartphone cameras 🔹Explaining how these technologies use AI helps students connect abstract concepts to their daily lives. 🧩 Use simple, interactive activities incorporating hands-on activities to demonstrate AI concepts. for example: AI or Not❓ Game: Create a game where students guess if various images, texts, or music were created by AI or humans. This introduces the concept of AI-generated content without requiring coding skills. 🤖 Teachable machine image classifier. Use Google's Teachable Machine to create a simple image classifier. Students can collect images of objects they're interested in and "train" the model to recognize them. ⚖️ AI ethics Scenarios. Present age-appropriate AI ethics scenarios for discussion, such as "Should an AI be allowed to grade your homework?" This encourages critical thinking about AI's implications. Teachers can explore a curated collection of user friendly lesson ideas from Science Buddies related to topics like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and neural networks, and more: 🦋 Butterfly Algorithms Happy or Sad? Exploring Bias in Machine Learning 🙍🏽♂️🙋🏽♂️ 🤖 Computer Simulation of an Artificial Neural Network In addition, Day of AI offers free and open-source AI tools, curriculum resources designed for students of all ages, abilities and levels of technology experience. <https://lnkd.in/gvJ9Tfhz ena> N.B. An email address is required for curriculum access #CSEdWeek #ExploreAI

Many countries, particularly those in the Global South with colonial legacies, rely on outdated curricula that overlook local knowledge and diverse pedagogies. This has created an urgent need for transformative education that is inclusive, contextually relevant, and globally conscious. Such an approach integrates local knowledge, addresses identity, diversity, and equity issues, and recognises the cultural heritage and values of learners. UNESCO-IBE’s flagship initiative endogenous curriculum and universal values aims to help countries develop appropriate curricula, supporting Sustainable Development Goal 4 and other UN goals. The approach emphasizes a curriculum that is systemic, holistic, sociocultural, learner-centred, and shaped by teachers as co-developers. More on this important topic here: https://lnkd.in/eQjmu7mB #SDG4 #QualityEducation #IntangibleCulturalHeritage #CurricululumDevelopment

🛣️ We are at a crossroads, where we must choose between continuing on an unsustainable path or making a significant shift. However, no current trend is set in stone. There's an urgent need to explore alternatives and imagine new futures. 🏫 Education plays a crucial role in this transition, holding great potential to create more equitable, inclusive, and sustainable futures by redefining our relationships with each other, our planet, and technology. However, for education to achieve this, it must undergo transformation. 🚸 Yet, it's worth considering that transformation by itself may not be the answer. We should begin by reassessing the fundamental purpose of education and how it can best serve the needs and priorities of individuals and communities. 🗓️ December 2-4, 2024, UNESCO ’s International Forum on the Futures of Education will provide a platform through which Member States and the global community can strengthen dialogue in relation to the Futures of Education initiative. #FutureofEducation #SDG4 #QualityEducation

I’ve been thinking about how we might shift our approaches to climate education to inspire the next gen of change-makers. #TeachingforChange #Teachers #ClimateChangeEducation #CCE #Sustainability #ForPeopleForPlanet

🏭 Cities are key contributors to Carbon dioxide emissions yet catalysts for climate action. Currently responsible for around 75% of global Carbon dioxide emissions, cities – and in particular the transport systems and office buildings – play a pivotal role in the world’s response to the climate crisis. 🌱 In addition to being central to the transformation to inclusive and green economies, cities are also at the forefront of efforts to empower local communities with the knowledge and skills that are needed to break long-established patterns of unsustainable consumption, production and mobility. 📚 The learning city concept provides an effective framework for transforming urban environments through lifelong learning. Achieving the transition towards net-zero in cities requires social change, which is manifested in individuals’ everyday life practices and broader social relations and structures. #LifelongLearning #ClimateAction #LearningCities

STEM education can be designed to better engage girls through several targeted strategies. Teachers can: ▪️use gender-neutral language when teaching STEM concepts. ▪️foster a classroom atmosphere that encourages risk-taking and embraces mistakes as learning opportunities. ▪️Provide timely and constructive feedback that focuses on effort and strategies rather than innate ability. We (teachers) need to recognize the way we were taught, as learners and methods presented to us as best practices during the teacher preparation programs just won't cut it 5, 7, 10+ years after entering the classroom. Different times, call for different evidence-based strategies. Teachers can: ✔️ connect specialized math skills to everyday scenarios and future career opportunities. ✔️design engaging classroom activities that integrate culturally-relevant and responsive practices. ✔️use authentic teaching approaches that leverage girls' interests and foster a strong mathematics identity. ✔️teach strategies for coping with math anxiety and overcoming challenges ✔️ create opportunities for girls to interact with female mathematicians and scientists (boys will benefit from this too)

The UNESCO Learning City of Edmonton, #Canada, is championing the transition to a low-carbon future while using the power of #LifelongLearning 🌱. Tackling climate change can feel overwhelming, but Edmonton’s Neighbouring for Climate initiative proves that collective action leads to real progress. 🤝 This innovative programme offers easy-to-use Climate Action Cards with practical tips to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt neighbourhoods to a changing climate. But it doesn’t stop there—Neighbouring for Climate also creates opportunities for neighbours to: 💡 Connect and build relationships 💰 Save money 🎨 Beautify their communities 🎉 Learn new skills and have fun! As we gear up for the Sixth International Conference on Learning Cities #ICLC6, discover how Edmonton is empowering its citizens to make a difference https://lnkd.in/dZFuQCX7 #ICLC6 #SDG4 SDG11 #SDG13 #GreeningEducation

As technology becomes ever more embedded in classrooms, are students genuinely benefiting from its integration or are we facing unintended setbacks? Many educators, parents, and policymakers wonder whether the frequent use of technology improves learning outcomes. Does digital engagement impact students’ focus, confidence and problem-solving skills or are we creating new gaps in skills and understanding? December 2, OECD Education and Skills is hosting a #webinar to answer these questions and more. Here's a handy time zone converter tool. https://lnkd.in/ehVNVpZb Registration info👇🏽