Education World Forum 2024 Theme

The range and significance of challenges facing education are ever growing. Separating what’s important and what’s urgent, then prioritising action are hard choices.

We know that technology can improve learning and teaching. It can amplify good practice and scale student support. Technology’s introduction can provide reasons to review opportunities and risks, and lead to changed priorities. By changing priorities we can also strengthen focus on human interaction and relationships. For example, tasks such as presentation of materials or providing simple tests and rapid student feedback through technology based solutions take some of these tasks out of the classroom and leave more space for working together, discussion, creativity and action. Such action can be particularly important, when it leads to learning and, for education to make real impact on major issues such climate change and sustainability.

Looking across education from early years through schooling to vocational and on to university and professional learning, EWF will focus on how we should prioritise our policies and establish actions to take, not only for stronger, bolder, better education. It can help us contribute to building a better world.