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Change Management and Culture of Innovation

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May 6

“Personalizing the learning environment is, to me, the most groundbreaking and exciting thing happening in education today” – Nasha Fitter, USA

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May 1

“As the world of programming is opening up and becoming more accessible with new software, like Kodu for example, children are able to create their own apps to use in their learning. I am super excited to see what that looks like in ten and even five years time.” – Charlotte Beckhurst, UK

Apr 29

“Teacher training, measuring and defining intelligence, workplace needs and student needs all should be explored to better develop a system for the present and future.” – Rod Berger, USA

Mar 31

“…good teachers reach their students in the way best suited for the learner and not the way the teacher learned as a student.” – Ken Halla, USA

Mar 26

“The standard lecture format is not engaging to this generation of learners. We need to adapt our teaching styles to meet their needs. With the tools at their fingertips today, they can focus on becoming problem solvers with excellent means for expression and spreading their findings.” – Diane Evans, USA

Christiana Peppard

Mar 25

“There are a great many more questions in the world than there are static, universal answers. I want to train students to ask good questions, to differentiate better questions from worse ones, and to pursue promising methods of inquiry. I don’t want to train basic answer-retrievers; for that, we now have smartphones.” – Christiana Z. Peppard, USA

Mar 11

“Smart Education is not smart device education, but rather an educational paradigm shift for digital natives. Teachers cannot imagine what our future will be like after 30 years, so they have to study 21st century skills and know how to apply them to their traditional classroom with ICT.” – ByeongGuk Ku, Korea

Mar 6

“We are restoring the educational system with more lessons in mathematics at an earlier age. We’re also changing education for teachers.” – Lotta Edholm, Sweden

Eugene Morturnak

Feb 25

“Without critical thinking, we cannot cope with the avalanche of information. And without the ability to work in a team, it is impossible to implement any serious projects.” – Eugene Moturnak, Ukraine

Feb 23

“Somewhere, there is some kid in some isolated town, with nobody around them who can answer their questions who might find in my writings something that will open an entire new world to them.” – Don Lincoln, USA

Feb 11

“Literacy is essential, but a passion for ideas and culture, learning and curiosity is far more important. Kindle that passion and you are making a large difference in the life of an individual and our society.” – Darcy Moore, Australia

Feb 6

“It’s not about the device. It has never been about the device. It’s about what we do with the device.” – Lou Zulli, Jr., USA

Feb 2

“The rising tide of our expectations is already giving birth to a new way of thinking about what’s possible and a new generation of tools and models (flipped classrooms, MOOCs) that will satisfy them.” – Dan Cogan-Drew, USA

Jan 29

“We wanted students to be able to write apps – and learn programming – directly on their smartphones. By bringing the app development environment in ‘their world,’ we lower the barrier to entry for the amazing world of CS.” – Peli de Halleux, USA

Jan 17

“Students of all ages must be trained to search, select, qualify (and therefore disqualify), then enrich with their own thought, and then use and share information.” – Marc Rougier, France

Jan 16

Your Students are “Teaching” Without You! – Bram Faems, Belgium

Jan 9

“More highly diversified curriculum, the product of a greater specialization, is a two-edged sword. It provides fascinating new opportunities, but also creates the risk that people can lose a common language. We must always foster communication across disciplines.” – Jonathan Hall, USA

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Dec 9

“Once you’re looking at the student needs, then everything else falls into place.” – Elizabeth Huergo, Mexico

Dec 6

“We hope… to provide policymakers and educational practitioners with the needed evidence, tools and vision to transform education and training for 21st century learning and teaching.” – Yves Punie, Spain

Nov 30

“One of the greatest moments for all of us at Partners in Learning is when a teacher comes up to us and says, ‘Thanks for giving me the opportunity to share my experience with other teachers and really feel the work I’m doing is appreciated and can help other teachers and students around the world.’” – Lauren Woodman, USA