Groningen, Qingdao, Cape Town? On Education 2030 Digital Vision and the

Contribution of the Groningen Declaration

Borhene Chakroun, Section Chief, UNESCO

Focus Areas of the SDGs

The World in 2030 (UN Summit, Sept 2015): 17 SDGs and 169 Targets adopted

Education 2030: The New Context for ICTs in Education

“Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning

opportunities for all” (SDG 4) Access: ICTs are expected to broaden access to learning

opportunities at different levels and in varied educational contexts Quality: ICTs are hoped to improve the quality of knowledge

acquisition, knowledge deepening, and knowledge creation, and the development of 21st century skills Equity: ICTs hold the potential to support the provision of

equitable learning opportunities for disadvantaged populations Lifelong Learning: ICTs hold potential to better communicate

learning achievements

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5 Pillards of Sustainable Development

Data Revolution

Data Revolution

Key Policy Issues Adopted in Qingdao

Ensure inclusive and equal access to ICT devices and online resources for the poor, women and girls, and learners in geographically isolated areas.

Develop capacities of policy makers, education managers, education institutions, and individual teachers in leveraging ICT.

Promote the free sharing and creative re-use of open educational resources including online courseware.

Seize the emerging opportunities enabled by ubiquitous and mobile learning opportunities. Enable the portability of education and training data (Learners records, digital Credentials, digital skills passports, badges)

Overall Goal and Objectives

• Strengthen the supply of qualified teachers through ICT-supported training modalities, and support teachers to make effective and innovative use of ICT.

• Promote girls’ and women’s access to and competency of using ICT to narrow the digital gender divide and contribute to their empowerment.

• Foster inclusive and quality education systems by promoting ICT-supported lifelong learning pathways including through widening the access to high-quality Open Educational Resources (OER) available in local languages.

• Foster innovative public-private-partnerships contributing to equitable access to ICT and quality lifelong learning for all.

Focus areas of our work:

ICTs in Education Policy Monitoring and measuring (UIS) Teacher training Mobile learning Open educational resources (OER) Open and online higher education

UNESCO ICT Competency Framework for Teachers (ICT-CFT)

To help Member States develop national ICT Competency Standards for Teachers as part of their teacher education programmes.

CURRICULUM

AND ASSESSMENT BASIC

KNOWLEDGE KNOWLEDGE APPLICATION

21ST CENTURY SKILLS

PEDAGOGY TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION

COMPLEX PROBLEM SOLVING

SLEF MANAGEMENT

POLICY AND VISION

TECHNOLOGY LITERACY

KNOWLEDGE DEEPENING

KNOWLEDGE CREATION

ICT BASIC TOOLS COMPLEX TOOLS PERVASIVE

TOOLS

ORGANIZATION & ADMINISTRATION

STANDARD CLASSROOMS

COLLABORATIVE GROUPS

LEARNING ORGANIZATION

S TEACHER PROFESSIONAL

DEVELOPMENT

DIGITAL LITERACY

MANAGER

AND COACH TEACHER AS

MODEL LEARNER

POLICY AWARENESS

POLICY UNDERSTANDING

POLICY INNOVATIONI

UNESCO: setting the norms and standards

Normative instruments on TVET

Recommendation Concerning Technical and Vocational Education and Training (2015)

Normative instruments on HE

Regional Conventions

Work on Global Convention

Normative instruments on Right to Education

The Right to Education Recommendation

Guidelines

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Putting Groningen in Lifelong and Life-Wide Perspective

• Learners records

• Skills Passports

• Badges

• Others

2030 Sustainable

Development Agenda

Data Revolution

SDG 4

Groningen Mouvement

17 Goals Groning

Mouvement as Development Platform

Data for People and Planet

Lifelong and Life-wide Learning

Complementary digital and analog foundations

Cap-Town outcomes: Putting Groningnen in 2030 Agenda

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