Shafika Isaacs
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UNESCO Chief of Section: Technology & AI in Education
Paris, France
Joined June 2009
RT @CivicTechAfrica: Help track online gender-based violence (OGBV) with @KICTANet!🎗. @KICTANet has introduced an OGBV tracker documenting….
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RT @ITUBDTDirector: Explore the Collaborative Digital Regulation Country Review for South Africa 🇿🇦, highlighting the frameworks enabling S….
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RT @Leonardonclt: 🚨NEW🚨: AI Is Wreaking Havoc on Global Power Systems. We analyzed data on 1000s of data centers and found that AI data cen….
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RT @Livingstone_S: Two @ySKILLS_eu conclusions on #research #children #youth. ✔️#DigitalLiteracy is both a valued outcome and the means of….
blogs.lse.ac.uk
To thrive in the digital environment children must gain digital literacy. But what difference does digital literacy make to children’s wellbeing & rights?
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"Where technology is used, teacher and student data and privacy protections should be safeguarded." .Recommendations on Teachers and Tech from the UN High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession. ✨. #SDG4 . #TechonOurTerms.
Kersti Kaljulaid, co-chair of the High-Level Panel emphasizes the need for balanced workloads, social protection, and respect for teachers, advocating for the UN to explore a new Normative Instrument for Teachers. #UNSG4teachers #FundEducation
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RT @laurenfok1: Calling all CAREGIVERS and TEACHERS looking for interesting and stimulating African language children's books that focus o….
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Valuable advice for graduate students.
Great advice here. Choose a research topic that you care a lot about. Read what others have written about it. Be curious. Doing this, you will have unanswered questions: 'what if', 'why', 'how', or 'I wonder', that will act as the springboard for your own work.
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In a paper due to be published later this year, Ren’s team estimates ChatGPT gulps up 500 milliliters of water (close to what’s in a 16-ounce water bottle) every time you ask it a series of between 5 to 50 prompts or questions
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Serving as moderator today in the #unesco DLW public lecture and dialogue with 2 laureates of the 2018 AM Turing Award Prof Yann LeCun VP Chief AI Scientist Meta & Yoshua Bengio, Founder and Scientific Director of Quebec AI Institute. @go2uj .
unesco.org
From 2 to 5 September 2025, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France
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RT @arasbozkurt: A useful list of "Open Access Journals in Educational Technology".by @hassenrueb.
joshuaweidlich.wordpress.com
If you want to make your research more accessible by publishing open access, luckily, there are plenty of options to choose from in the field of Educational Technology and Distance Education. IR…
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"If the forced move to online schooling demonstrated one thing, it is that schools as physical hubs - where people congregate and interact - are a necessity for the welfare of young people.".
tes.com
The pandemic laid bare many issues with education but three years on and day-to-day teaching and school operations are mostly back to normal - so, what did it really change?
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RT @SallyLars_27: New today! A summary of our research showing the absence of Matthew effects in NAPLAN .reading and numeracy from Yr 3 to….
theconversation.com
A new study looked at NAPLAN results in reading and numeracy and tracked the same students all the way from from Year 3 to Year 9.
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RT @MariaMichalis: A useful report by Unesco, with inputs from many experts incl. @guyberger .#AI . Reporting on artificial intelligence:….
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RT @datasociety: Citing concerns that facial recognition tech infringes on privacy and increases discrimination, over 100 artists have anno….
rollingstone.com
Rage Against the Machine founders Tom Morello and Zack de la Rocha are among more than 100 artists boycotting venues using face-scanning technology.
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