The Blue DOT
The Blue DOT features articles showcasing UNESCO MGIEP’s activities and areas of interest. The magazine’s overarching theme is the relationship between education, peace and sustainable development and education for global citizenship.
Issue XVII: Reimagining Assessments
Today, assessments come in many formats and serve different purposes, to inform policies, development and interventions at different levels. However, even for large-scale educational assessments, an individual is still placed in a test-taking situation, there are tasks presented and questions asked, and there is a result and expectations of what the result implies. In addition, you rarely get a second chance.
ReadIssue XVI: Designing a Healthy Ecosystem to promote Mental Health
Issue 16 of the Blue DOT will focus on investigating the link between mental health and social and emotional learning across the following areas: the links between the neuroscience perspective on brain maturation, neural networks, and mental health, promoting preventive and promotive features during early childhood and beyond using an “all young people” vs “at risk” narrative.
ReadIssue XV: Humans and Nature Exploring Relationships
It’s time to question the way we have been educating our children. We live in a world where anthropogenic climate change, environmental degradation and loss of biodiversity have reached an alarming level. However, the dominant discourse in education continues to see it as a tool for economic growth, ignoring its transformative potential for a peaceful, prosperous and environmentally sustainable planet.
ReadIssue XIV: Multidisciplinary Science & Evidence For Education
In this edition, we bring to you news of the International Science and Evidence based Education Assessment (ISEE Assessment) that the Institute embarked on in 2019. The ISEE Assessment contributes to re-envisioning the future of education and feeds into UNESCO's Futures of Education report, today constituting over 250 authors from 70 countries.
ReadIssue XIII: Reimagining Education: Beyond the Rhetoric
Issue 13 of The Blue DOT aims to propose new ways of looking at education systems in terms of content, evaluation and assessments, pedagogy, the role of the teacher, and capturing and integrating voices of the youth in education systems. The inspiring solutions and ideas proposed in this Issue are based on evidence and backed by the sciences in our interconnected, interdependent world.
Issue XII: Reimagining Learning Spaces for Uncertain Times
This Issue highlights how novel learning spaces and modes of learning that emerged in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic provide valuable lessons for preparing for future shocks and disruptions. In so doing, it also underscores our potential to innovate existing education systems to be better equipped to cultivate young people’s competencies for engaging creatively.
ReadTECH 2019 Special Issue
Building on the success of TECH 2017 and 2018, TECH 2019, held in partnership with the State Government of Andhra Pradesh, India, successfully showcased the role of digital technologies in enabling a shift from “transmissive pedagogies” to “transformative pedagogies” to create more peaceful and sustainable societies with over 1000 diverse stakeholders coming together in Vizag from Dec 10-12 to deliberate on the role of Digital Pedagogies in building sustainable societies. Read views from experts who partook in the discussions that transpired at the Conference.
ExploreIssue XI: KINDNESS - The Force that will Help us Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
Practicing kindness can be a transformative process. Neuroscience has established that emotion, motivation, learning and experience- are all present in the brain in the form of linkages among specific neurons. The ability to form new connections (neuroplasticity) forms the basis of new habits, new knowledge, skills and attitudes in humans. Through neuroplasticity, positive behaviours such as empathy and kindness can be reinforced. Read our Issue 11 to know more.
ExploreIssue X: Social and Emotional Learning
The need for resilient and adaptive individuals for rapidly changing environments is becoming increasingly important. Recent research has demonstrated that students need to be “socially aware” and “emotionally-connected” in order to learn effectively and for societies to flourish. Social and emotional learning is key to building both emotional and intellectual intelligence in learners and can also play a pivotal role in achieving peaceful and sustainable societies.
ExploreIssue IX: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Education
The ninth issue of The Blue DOT takes on artificial intelligence and the future of education. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has caught the imagination of the world and has been gaining popularity in the business sector. Rather than replacing teachers and making learning impersonal, AI could take learning to a completely new level. Read what academicians, policymakers, practitioners and researchers have to say about the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Education.
Read Issue 9Issue VIII: Digital Pedagogies for Building Peaceful and Sustainable Societies
In issue 8 of UNESCO MGIEP's flagship publication, The Blue DOT, we focus on discussing how digital pedagogies such as games, virtual reality, augmented reality and artificial intelligence can be embedded into our education systems for a better future.
Read Issue 8Issue VII: Rethinking Learning: Exploring Different Pedagogical Approaches to transform Education For Humanity
In the seventh issue of the Blue Dot, we focus on Rethinking Learning. The issue includes a foreword by the Former Minister of Education of Mali, H.E. Adama Samassékou on how education systems need to be re-looked at to incorporate personalised learning and technology as an enabler and our Cover Story, which focuses on the importance of socio-emotional learning.
Read Issue 7Issue VI: Rewiring the brain to be future ready
In the sixth issue of The Blue DOT, we focus on how 21st century skills such as empathy, compassion, mindfulness and critical inquiry can be integrated in education systems towards developing peaceful and sustainable societies.
Read Issue 6Issue V: The Seen Unseen
In this issue of The Blue DOT, we are privileged to read from some of the world’s best experts on the subject of Difference Learning, describing the challenges at hand and suggesting ways and means of addressing the lacuna present in curricula and policy. As always, we dedicate a special section to reflecting the voices of young people in our discussion.
Read Issue 5Issue IV: Education & Extremism - Waging Peace in the Classroom
In this fourth issue of The Blue DOT, we focus on education as a tool for both preventing violent extremism - and sometimes - even propagating extremist ideologies. This issue reflects UNESCO MGIEP's commitment to advancing the fundamental role of education as a means to changing mindsets, and ultimately, bringing about more peaceful societies.
Read Issue 4Issue III: Education & Crisis
In this third issue of The Blue DOT, we focus on the often forgotten aspect of education in the context of crises. In this issue, we bring together expert contributors from academia and the field - from countries such as Afghanistan, Nepal and South Sudan.
Read Issue 3Issue II: What does it take to change the world?
In the tradition of The Blue DOT, we put together a collection of articles from the keenest minds in the industry, interviews from prominent social activists, features about UNESCO MGIEP's most innovative programmes, and voices of the world's youth on their perceptions of, and hopes for, the SDGs.
Read Issue 2Issue I: The War is in Our minds: Is Global Citizenship the Answer
The first issue of The Blue DOT takes on global citizenship and education for global citizenship. The issue was released at the right time as debates on global citizenship and education for global citizenship pick up speed.
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