Listen what Phil Birchinall - Senior Director of Immersive Content, Discovery Education thinks about implementing innovations in classrooms

The global COVID-19 outbreak which erupted in late December 2019, has changed how millions around the globe are educated. Social distancing and self-isolation have translated into school and university closures across the globe: according to UNESCO, approximately 1,725 billion learners have been impacted by nationwide closures – nearly 100% of the world’s student population. In the UAE, distance l ...

With many of us experiencing the fall-out of poorly designed reactive online learning, this episode provides hope that the next generation of EdTech (and its pedagogical deployment) will be all about more sophisticated ways of connecting, collaborating and learning together. For this, we need to understand our intrinsic emotions and motivations as learners better. Our guests chat about social-emot ...

Preventing waste is high on most people’s agendas, and taking care of the planet’s precious resources is vital for all our futures. The organisation 2econd Chance addresses two of our most pressing issues, the waste of older computers heading for landfill and, more importantly, the waste of human potential when possibilities for inclusive employment are ignored.   One of the highlights of Bett 202 ...