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Workshop 1 - Digital Transformation
Workshop 1 - Digital Transformation
Japanese education policy / GIGA Project and Society 5.0
Japanese education policy / GIGA Project and Society 5.0
Kosei Abiko, Deputy Director-General, Elementary and Secondary Education Bureau, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Japan
What is Society 5.0?
“A human-centered society that achieves both economic development and the resolution of social issues through a system that highly integrates cyberspace and physical space.”
What are the important social changes in thinking about education in the future?
Societal change is accelerating, becoming more complex and unpredictable.
What is the goal of the GIGA-School Project?
The background of the GIGA-School concept and the direction of educational reform that we are aiming for.
Malaysia Digital Platforms and Digital Futures: Malaysia Education Blueprint looking forward
Malaysia Digital Platforms and Digital Futures: Malaysia Education Blueprint looking forward
Dr Wagheeh Shukry Hassan, Principal Assistant Director, Ministry of Education, Malaysia
Azhan Abdullah, Director of Information Technology, Education Performance & Delivery Unit, Ministry of Education, Malaysia
Digital Learning Platform (DELIMa) – Strategy, Challenges & Opportunities
A case study of Malaysia’s implementation of DELIMa Learning.
How it saved the classroom during the Covid pandemic.
Moving forward and leveraging opportunities in the new norm.
Workshop 2 - Towards Inclusion and equity
Workshop 2 - Towards Inclusion and equity
Micro credentialing in the Alternative Learning System (ALS) in the Philippines
Micro credentialing in the Alternative Learning System (ALS) in the Philippines
G.H Ambat, Assistant Secretary, Public Affairs Service and Alternative Learning System, Department of Education – The Philippines
Enterprise Professor Sandra Milligan, University of Melbourne Assessment Research Centre
The Alternative Learning System (ALS) Program of the Department of Education (DepEd) is a parallel learning system in the Philippines that provides opportunities for out-of-school children in special cases, youth, and adults (OSCYAs) to develop basic and functional literacy skills and access equivalent pathways to complete basic education despite economic, geographic, political, cultural or social barriers.
Through ALS, OSCYAs are empowered to continue learning in a manner, time, and place tailored to respond to their learning needs and life situation.
From 2016 to 2021, reforms and innovations were introduced in its curriculum, learning delivery, learning resources and assessment to ensure relevance and responsiveness of the program, not only to its learners but to the community and country.
To address the limitations posed by a once-a-year assessment, DepEd, in partnership with UNICEF Philippines, UP Assessment Curriculum and Technology Research Center (ACTRC), and the University of Melbourne, explored the feasibility of micro-certification, or credentialing through which ALS learners can gain certificates when they satisfy a set of predetermined assessment requirements related to a competency or skill that can be acquired through ALS. Officials and personnel in DepEd and partners in the private sector welcomed this new form of assessment and certification. DepEd, with support from UNICEF Philippines and other partners, is building on the gains from the feasibility study by finalizing the guidelines to implement micro-certification in ALS on a nationwide scale.
Reaching marginalised learners: out-of-school children in Pakistan
Reaching marginalised learners: out-of-school children in Pakistan
Waseem Ajmal Chaudhary , Additional Secretary, Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training , Pakistan
Umar Farooq, CEO, Tech Valley Pakistan
Kasim Kasuri, CEO, Beaconhouse School System, Pakistan
Pakistan has the world’s second-highest number of out-of-school children where an estimated 22.8 million children between 5 to 16 years of age are not attending school representing 44% of the total population in this age group. Tech Valley Pakistan, along with Ministry of Federal Education, Pakistan and Global Google for Education team, recently conducted few design thinking workshops to get to the root cause of the problem. Meanwhile, recent flood disaster further deteriorated the situation by destroying almost 18,590 schools of Pakistan. To tackle this issue, an idea of “School on Wheels” was born out of the workshops which intends to provide education to these out of school children with the state-of-art technology.
Workshop 3 - Empowering SChools
Workshop 3 - Empowering SChools
Emancipated Learning: Perspectives and Challenges in Transforming Schools in Indonesia
Emancipated Learning: Perspectives and Challenges in Transforming Schools in Indonesia
Dr Iwan Syahril, Director General of Early Childhood Education, Basic Education, and Secondary Education, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan (Ministry of Education and Culture Republic of Indonesia)
Responding to learning crisis, Indonesia’s education has been going through major changes in the past three years by focusing on foundational learning. The high-stakes subject-based national exam is replaced by a low-stakes diagnostic assessment that focuses on literacy, numeracy, and non-cognitive aspects. The new curriculum emphasizes depth rather than breadth, allowing students to actively explore issues that are relevant to them. To transform teaching and learning, Indonesia focuses on the development of a new generation of leaders with a strong emphasis on instructional leadership. Moreover, teacher education is also transformed to become more practice-oriented with strong disposition towards student-centered learning. Finally, Indonesia utilizes technology to scale up and accelerate progress by providing high-quality digital platforms to help teachers teach better with student-centered philosophy and principals to lead better by simplifying their administrative tasks so they focus on developing a professional learning community in their schools.
Manaiakalani - Empowering a network of connected schools
Manaiakalani - Empowering a network of connected schools
Dorothy Burt, Professional Learning Programme Lead, Manaiakalani Education Trust, New Zealand
In 2006, a community of learners, families and educators in Tāmaki, a low socio-economic suburb of Auckland, embarked on a project to raise student outcomes and build capacity and engagement through the combination of media and digital technologies and effective teaching practice.
Their collective success in developing digital citizens of learners and their whānau has been well documented and Manaiakalani has expanded to become an empowered network of socio-economically disadvantaged school communities across New Zealand.
The future focused model of learning supported through the Manaiakalani Programme has empowered students to become confident digital citizens and realise their potential. Parents are supported to invest in a digital learning device for their child, wireless internet access is provided at home and school, enabling students and their families to have ubiquitous access to their learning. Teachers are empowered to design evidence-based, innovative approaches to teaching through an extensive programme of professional learning.
This connected network of 120+ schools sharing resources, ideas, data and innovation has navigated the challenges of the pandemic so far and is reimagining what future focused learning in connected communities means for students, families and schools in our context.
Workshop 4 - Transforming learning
Workshop 4 - Transforming learning
Bermuda: a system in transition
Bermuda: a system in transition
The Hon Diallo V Rabain, Jp, MP, Minister of Education, The Government of Bermuda
Keren Caple, CEO, Innovation Unit ANZ
For Bermuda to thrive as a nation, its young people must have the opportunity to develop the skills, knowledge, attitudes and values that will help them to:
access and create jobs of the future,
be active and informed citizens and
tackle the increasingly complex challenges being faced in Bermuda and around the world.
To meet this vision, Bermuda is reforming its Public Education system; providing the people of Bermuda with an education system they can trust and believe in; one that enables students to achieve great learning and life outcomes.
The reform process impacts all aspects of an education system including:
Reconceptualising how the system and schools are governed;
Reorienting the system to nurture, empower and sustain the transformation of our schools;
Redesigning models of learning, teaching and schooling
Rebuilding the infrastructure;
Reengaging stakeholders and, importantly;
Remembering the history and legacy of education in Bermuda.
This workshop will provide participants with the opportunity to understand more about the ambitious transformation efforts in Bermuda and contribute to the future direction as we unpack not only the successes to date but some of the challenges being experienced in large scale system reformation.
transforming Learning for all
transforming Learning for all
Professor Kai-Ming Cheng, Emeritus Professor, University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong suffers from the longest period of school closure. Describing what teachers have done during the pandemic, this presentation illustrates how suspension of the physical classroom has provided windows of opportunities to start transforming school education in a way that perhaps is a prelude to the future.
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