Her research involves blending theories from the learning sciences with techniques from Artificial Intelligence. I am looking forward to hearing findings about the depth of the digital divide and ideas for solutions to bridge the gap.
He holds a PhD in educational sciences and was a professor at Ghent University. BILL GATES: As a leader in the technology industry, we were thinking quite a bit in the late s and early s about how we could improve education on a global level. We knew education was the cornerstone of social and economic opportunity. So the goal with Partners in Learning was to create an integrated set of resources that could be tailored locally to increase technology access for schools, encourage innovative approaches to pedagogy and professional development for teachers, and provide education leaders with the tools to envision, implement, and manage change.
The decision a decade ago to fund a global program like Partners in Learning was bold, ambitious, and frankly something of a risk. The fact Microsoft is funding it for another 5 years is a testament to its success. With your travels around the world what do you think are the opportunities for education and the challenges?
Growing up, I was fortunate to have some great teachers who nurtured a love of learning and encouraged me to try out new things—like experimenting with computers. Research has proven what my own experience taught me: that teacher effectiveness is one of the most important factors in determining how well students learn and whether they succeed in school. PiL has been focused on that since it was launched in —providing teachers with great technology and the most effective teaching practices so they can nurture, inspire, and educate every student.
When it comes to students and teachers in the developing world, they can face enormous challenges. Technology may lie beyond the reach of millions of students and teachers for some time to come.
But those schools that do have technology need to be getting the most out of it possible and teachers need to understand the best possible ways those technologies can add to their effectiveness.
What advice do you have for us for the next 10 years of Partners in Learning or for me specifically as we continue the journey to work in partnership with educators around the world? There is no silver bullet to improve education. What works in a given country or region depends a lot on unique cultural and economic circumstances. The challenge and the opportunity for PiL is to continue to be a learning organization as it works to empower educators and their students.
Microsoft was founded on what was at the time a bold vision for a PC in every home and on every desk. What are you most excited about regarding impact on learning with this trend? When done right, technology can definitely help teachers be more effective and make learning more interesting.
The next step is teasing out the best of that. There are huge opportunities to create more engaging and interactive ways of learning, including personalized learning that gives students and teachers important real-time feedback.
We are in an extraordinary period of change in education. My hope and expectation is that PiL will continue to push the frontier over the next five years as it has over the last decade. Log in. Sign up. Log out. My profile and settings. Please complete your account verification. Resend verification email. This verification token has expired.
And then, finding ways where Microsoft can help, rallying teams across the field, as well as our company, on what we need to do to support great education activity. AS: Absolutely. Service-based learning really helps not only unleash the great potential students have to make a difference on the planet, but it changes the way in which they think of their world.
So, saying yes to opportunities, saying yes to overcoming barriers and obstacles, saying yes to a new mindset. This is something we believe in. We need to bring it into classrooms all around the world. We have been kind of helping WE make doing good doable for the last two years, being sort of a core technology partner, and we have been helping the WE organization scale globally. Students attend WE schools primarily in Canada and the U. We believe so much in the mission, we thought that the right plan would be to scale globally.
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