Young People Today: Time to Act Now

Young People Today: Time to Act Now

An initiative that brings together policy makers, young people and civil society to strengthen sexuality education and reproductive and sexual health services in eastern and southern Africa. By having adequate access to these services, young people are empowered to make their own decisions about their health, preventing HIV/AIDS and unexpected pregnancies.

SMILE (Stanford Mobile Inquiry-based Learning Environment) - Paul Kim

SMILE is a mobile learning platform designed to cause a paradigm shift within education by enabling students to be active agents in their own learning. By utilizing both mobile and micro cloud-based technology, students create, solve, evaluate, and present questions based on their individual research and interest. In SMILE, the quality of the student-generated question is the evidence of learning outcomes, not test scores. This presentation shares lessons learned from implementing SMILE in unique education settings in Asia: a rural village education center in South India, a rural village mixed-grade Islamic boarding school in Indonesia, a South Korean medical university with BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) iPads, and a rural village elementary school for first graders using government-issued OTPC (One Tablet Per Child) tablets

Promoting Financial Literacy Among Somali Youth through Mobile Audio Instruction: The Dab Iyo Dahab Initiative - Leila Dal Santo (SoukTel)

Somalia is at a critical juncture: decades of violent conflict, economic recession, and a growing demographic "youth bulge" have spurred the need for significant youth empowerment initiatives--and for bottom-up education strategies that reach the bulk of youth who are illiterate and outside the formal school system. This webinar makes the case for basic mobile audio instruction as a strategy for reaching out-of-school youth across Somalia --particularly young Somali women -- and equipping them with core skills and knowledge that will help them succeed in the workplace. The webinar focuses on the successes of one such initiative, the Dab iyo Dahab mobile financial literacy program, which Souktel and the Education Development Center implemented from 2008-2011 through funding from USAID. This interactive seminar will provide an overview of the technology and curriculum components, share results from a post-project impact evaluation, and give participants a clear understanding of the steps they can take to implement similar interventions as part of their own work.

The Future of Mobile Learning - Niall Winters (University of London)

This report is part of the UNESCO Working Paper Series on Mobile Learning. The Series seeks to better understand how mobile technologies can be used to improve educational access, equity and quality around the world. This webinar will present an overview of the Future of Mobile Learning Report. Four Grand Challenges, all anchored in UNESCO's Education for All agenda, are presented as a frame for evaluating and supporting the future development of mobile learning. The underpinning rationale is to enable mobile learning for all through the equity of provision and opportunity. To address this, a two-pronged approach is presented which focuses on (i) mobile learning as a diverse ecosystem that relies on the cooperation of various entities both public and private, and (ii) significantly increasing practitioner training on the design of mobile learning interventions.

Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust 2013 - Edward Kissi

Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust 2013. Intervention of Edward Kissi, professor of genocide and Holocaust studies at the Department of Africana Studies of the University of South Florida