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Leveraging Technology for Learning: Celebrating UNESCO’s First International Day for Digital Learning
Event Date:
Wed, 2025/03/19
Venue:
Virtual
Event to celebrate the first International Day for Digital Learning
19 March 2024
First International Day for Digital Learning
19 March 2024 - 2:00 pm - 19 March 2024 - 3:30 pm
Arrangement type : Virtual
Language(s) : English
Contact : Laura Stipanovic
UNESCO's first International Day for Digital Learning
Recognizing the potential of high-quality and accessible digital learning to address educational challenges worldwide and to promote inclusive sustainable development, in 2023 UNESCO Member States decided to proclaim 19 March of every year as the International Day For Digital Learning.
The GEM Report is joining the commemoration of the first International Day for Digital Learning on 19 March by partnering with Restless Development, the Global Student Forum and the SDG4 Youth & Student Network to organize interactive a 2-part webinar and online discussion that will highlight the challenges and opportunities faced by youth and students when accessing and utilizing digital learning. The discussion will bring youth leaders, representatives of regional organizations and other key stakeholders, to discuss the relevance, equity, scalability, and sustainability considerations of the use of ICTs and digital technologies in education.
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A webinar placing youth at the center
The first International Day of Digital Learning will kick-off with welcoming remarks by Ms Stefania Giannini UNESCO’s Assistant Director-General for Education and Manos Antoninis Director of the Global Education Monitoring Report, who will take stock of UNESCO’s vast work on digital learning. This includes recent findings from the latest GEM Report, recommendations from the UNESCO Futures of Education Report, recent guidelines on AI in education and research and progress in measuring some of the commitments that came out from the Transforming Education Summit with particular reference to the new benchmark indicator on digital learning.
Justin Reich, Director of MIT Teaching Systems Lab and author of Failure to disrupt: why technology alone cannot transform education will then reflect on the role of youth in transforming education.
After the opening interventions youth and student representatives from Africa, the Arab States, Europe, Latin America and the Pacific will be invited to share the initial results from a global youth consultation process on technology in education. Finally, representatives from regional organizations and other key stakeholders will be invited to react to some of the points raised by the youth for each region.