Entry by Marcelo Pérez-Alfaro, Pablo Zoido y Gonzalo Muñoz. The exit from the pandemic with its progressive reopening of classrooms will have important effects on educational systems. The current scenario will affect learning achievements and amplify the dropout and unschooling risks. Preliminary calculations indicate a 17% increase in educational exclusion: 1 million … [Read more...] about COVID-19 and education: We will come back, but will all of us come back?
Educational systems
‘Self-directed learning’ skills are key to making remote instruction work
Tara García Mathewson is a staff writer at The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Her work has focused on education, immigration, public housing, and community news. She is also a special guest in our blog series about the development of #skills21 in Latin America and the Caribbean. The majority … [Read more...] about ‘Self-directed learning’ skills are key to making remote instruction work
8,000 families Tell Us About the Socioemotional Toll of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Peru
Entry by Juan M. Hernández-Agramonte (IPA), Claudia Paola Lisboa Vásquez (OSEE, Minedu), Carolina Méndez (BID), Olga Namen (IPA), Emma Näslund-Hadley (BID), y Luciana Velarde (OSEE, Minedu) Following school and workplace closures and layoffs throughout the world, mental health experts caution that lengthy shelter-in-place orders may have severe effects on our physical and … [Read more...] about 8,000 families Tell Us About the Socioemotional Toll of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Peru
Learning to learn together: Engineering social convergence online
Marie Lou Papazian is CEO and Pegor Papazian is Chief Development Officer at the TUMO Center for Creative Technologies, an innovative learning program at the intersection of technology and design. Created in Armenia, TUMO has now expanded to Paris, Beirut, Berlin, Moscow, Tirana and Kiev. TUMO also is a member of the 21st Century Skills Coalition joined by different public and … [Read more...] about Learning to learn together: Engineering social convergence online
Fighting the Power of an Image
Entry by Emma Naslund-Hadley and Juan Manuel Hernández-Agramonte Images are powerful, even mental images. If you cannot imagine yourself doing something, the odds that you will do it drops. International research that asks students to draw mathematicians and scientists, reveal that both boys and girls tend to picture them as male and white. If girls cannot picture … [Read more...] about Fighting the Power of an Image