Program:
5:00-5:05: Welcome
5:05-5:25: Mark West, UNESCO
5:25-5:35 Maria Wagner, Sustainable Games Alliance
5:35-5:45 Report launch and background: Natalia I. Kucirkova
5:45-5:55 Each author has two minutes about the report’s importance for the future of edtech
5:55-6:00 Thank you and Close
Key audience
Policy-makers, EdTech providers (companies), Academia
Profile of speakers
Keynote:
Mark West works in UNESCO’s Education Sector in where he researches and writes about the future of education. He advises governments about opportunities and risks for education in an age of accelerating technological and environmental change. Mark has authored numerous publications for UNESCO. The most recent, ‘An Ed-Tech Tragedy?’, is a book that analyzes the ed-tech experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic. It details the numerous adverse and unintended consequences of the pandemic shift to remote learning technologies and extracts lessons to ensure that technology better facilitates inclusive, equitable and human-centred public education. It has been well received by education and technology experts and praised by various news outlets, including the New York Times, the Financial Times, and the South China Morning Post. Some of Mark’s other publications of note include ‘I’d Blush if I Could’ and ‘Reading in the Mobile Era’. Prior to joining UNESCO, Mark worked as a teacher and teacher trainer and completed a Fulbright Fellowship in Azerbaijan. He studied history and education and is a graduate of Stanford University.
Maria Wagner is the Co-founder and Managing Director of the Sustainable Games Alliance, a non-profit cooperative founded to make the games industry the leader in sustainability by setting ambitious and achievable standards for environmental and social responsibility. Maria has also experience in running a refugee camp, was leading the local Berlin games association, and co-founded the non-profit Games Forest Club.
Report authors: Sofije Shengjergji; Anna Luzai; Stefanie Mills; Parker Van Nostrand; Anna Lindroos Cermakova; Natalia Ingebretsen Kucirkova. Report link: