Digital education in public policy
“Latin America needs not to lose the momentum of recent years, where education has become a top issue on the agenda”. The then Minister of Education of Colombia, María Victoria Angulo, and the Managing Director of ProFuturo, Magdalena Brier, spoke to the Observatory about some of the key issues that should shape the future of digital education in Latin American public policies.
Developing a “connectivity culture”, digital skills, teacher training, assessment of digital competences and public-private partnerships were at the main themes of the dialogue. If you want to know more, here is a summary and a link to the video.
New teaching competences in the age of digital education
What should be the role of teachers in 21st century education? Are they prepared to teach with technology? What competences and skills should they develop and how? New digital skills for teachers featured in this observatory conversation with Lùcia Dellagnelo, PhD in Education and Human Development at Harvard University and President Director of the CIEB (Innovation Centre for Brazilian Education). And we are not going to make spoilers, but, in the end, Lùcia presents us with a powerful tool for teachers, which ProFuturo has adapted and adopted for your use, and which you should not miss.
How to change the destiny of Africa through education
Inadequate funding, poor infrastructure, low-quality teachers, outdated curricula, a lack of political will… On Africa Day, Folawe Omikunle, CEO of Teach for Nigeria, told us about the biggest challenges facing education on the continent, and much, much more. Don’t miss the video of the full interview.
Learning Mathematics makes us happier
Why is it important to learn mathematics today? What are the big problems in teaching it? How can we overcome them? On the occasion of the “social debut” of the ProFuturo Foundation’s Mathematics School, the Observatory interviewed Carmen Salcedo, academic director of Jump Math Spain and Latin America, who answered these and other questions about the most misunderstood subject in the history of humankind. Would you like to know what she told us? Hit play!
ProFuturo Mathematics: Mathematics for all
And we continue with Mathematics. In this interview, Ernesto Ferrández, director of IteNlearning, explained the fundamentals of ProFuturo Mathematics, an innovative tool for learning Mathematics, which combines science and technology to teach the subject in vulnerable environments in 82 countries.
ProFuturo Mathematics: vanquishing the Seven-Headed Monster
Lack of methodologies, economic inequalities, misperceptions… these are some of the factors that hinder the teaching and learning of mathematics in vulnerable contexts. ProFuturo Mathematics helps us to overcome them. Some of its first users in Angola, Senegal and Uruguay have told us how in this video.
Children need to learn about artificial intelligence and algorithms
What is the relationship between artificial intelligence and data analytics? What should algorithms look like? Why is it so important for people to understand how artificial intelligence works? Can this technology help to universalise quality education? If you want to know more, don’t miss this interview with Carlos Martínez Miguel, global director of IoT (Internet of Things), big data and artificial intelligence solutions and services at Telefónica Tech tells us this and many other things you should know about artificial intelligence.
Teacher mentoring: learning to teach with support
Imagine a medical student who is sent to be the head of a hospital ICU right after graduation? Unthinkable, right? Well, that’s what happens in a teaching career, where you go from student to classroom manager, practically from one day to the next. In this interview, Miguel Costa, director of institutional relations at the Empieza Por Educar Foundation, talks about, among other things, the major need for support and guidance for teachers just starting out and how teacher mentoring programmes, which have proven effective in many OECD countries over the years, can make a huge difference.
