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Category Archives: ICT
Female science and mathematics teachers: Better than they think?
By Dirk Hastedt (International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement), Justine Sass (UNESCO) and Matthias Eck (UNESCO) 🔊 Listen to this blog More urgently than ever before, more girls and women are needed in science, technology, engineering and mathematics … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Gender, ICT, STEM, Teachers
Tagged #Target 4.5, girls' education, science, STEM, target 4.7, teaching
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Digital capacities and distance education in times of coronavirus. Insights from Latin America
By Nicolas Buchbinder, GEM Report Fellow Due to the coronavirus, schools have closed their doors in almost the entirety of Latin America. This is a situation with no precedent in the region. Countries have implemented different policies to continue the … Continue reading
Posted in Disaster preparedness, emergencies, ICT, STEM, Teachers, Uncategorized
Tagged coronavirus, covid19, digital divide, digital literacy skills, ICT, technology
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Charlotte, a teacher from Marseille: “We’re being asked to do a completely different job from before.”
The onset of Covid-19 means that teachers like me are suddenly being asked to do completely different jobs. While we were in the classroom engaging with children before, now we’re at home and trying to engage with their parents. I … Continue reading
Posted in Disaster preparedness, emergencies, ICT, Inclusion, Out-of-school children, Teachers, teaching, technology, Uncategorized
Tagged coronavirus, covid19, france, ICT, out of school, teachers, teaching, technology
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Coronavirus: France has called for educational continuity
English / Français By Anna Cristina D’Addio, Senior Policy Analyst, GEM Report, member of the Conseil d’Evaluation de l’Ecole, and mother of a teenage (lower) secondary school student in France. France closed all schools, colleges, high schools and universities on … Continue reading
Coronavirus: la France a appelé à la continuité pédagogique
English / Français Par Anna Cristina D’Addio, Responsable Principal de Projet, GEM Report (UNESCO), membre du nouveau Conseil d’Evaluation de l’Ecole et mère d’une Ă©lève du collège en France. La France a fermĂ© toutes les Ă©coles, collèges, lycĂ©es et universitĂ©s … Continue reading
Covid-19: How is Greece coping with school closure?
As with other countries around the world, Greece has faced two main challenges in its response to the coronavirus pandemic: delivering distance education and managing the postponement of examinations. Other challenges have also appeared, which show that no one approach … Continue reading
Posted in digital literacy, emergencies, europe, Finance, ICT, Out-of-school children, technology, Uncategorized
Tagged coronavirus, covid19, digital skills, emergencies, Greece, out of school, technology
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Business engagement in education in emergencies: Lessons for the COVID-19 response
By Francine Menashy, University of Massachusetts Boston The forthcoming 2021 Global Education Monitoring Report will focus on the vital role of the non-state sector. Businesses and business leaders represent one group of non-state actors with increasing prominence in global education. … Continue reading
The Peruvian education system: seeking quality and equity during COVID-19 times
By Milagros Lechleiter and Rosa Vidarte, GEM Report Peru was the first country in Latin American to decree the mandatory social distancing of its population on March 16, only 10 days after detecting its first case of COVID-19. The quarantine … Continue reading
“Doing no harm” in and through education
One of the most striking effects of the global pandemic is how millions of people have faced moral dilemmas. Choices over education is a case in point. The education sector often looks to the health sector for ideas, inspired by … Continue reading
COVID 19: how Senegal intends to ensure #LearningNeverStops
English / Français By Rokhaya Fall Diawara and Tidiane Sall, UNESCO The spread of COVID-19 is a growing worry for Africa. Among the 47 African countries that have closed their schools and universities to more than 280 million African children, … Continue reading
Posted in Disaster preparedness, emergencies, ICT, Out-of-school children, technology, Uncategorized
Tagged coronavirus, covid19, ICT, ICT skills, learning, out of school, Senegal, technology
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