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WISE 2010: Innovative global education models and learners with disabilities

This post reviews parts of the second World Innovation Summit for Education held in Doha, Qatar on December 7-9, 2010 and implications for learners with disabilities. Nearly 1300 dignitaries, thought leaders, disruptive ICT practitioners, program planners and policy makers were provided with a more focused program with deeper debates, better internet access, WISE web TV and WISE Twitter feeds to push out up live updates. Find out more here!

Discover LDI2010-12-16T13:58:36-07:00December 16th, 2010|

Crawford invited to contribute at the Qatar Foundation 2010 World Innovation Summit for Education

I recently received notification of being invited to participate in the second installment of the Qatar Foundation

Discover LDI2010-08-26T16:11:25-07:00August 26th, 2010|

2010 World Innovation Summit for Education in Doha, Qatar

The Qatar Foundation announces the 2010 WISE event will be held in Doha, Qatar on December 7-9, 2010. It promises to be a great follow up to last year's inaugural event where 1200 of the world's leading educational innovators met and developed 10 Global Educational Priorities.

Discover LDI2019-08-22T10:43:10-07:00May 27th, 2010|

WISE-ing up: Future relevance of special education?

The World Innovation Summit for Education in Doha, Qatar zeroed in on the concept of education being in a transtional state- especially with technological breakthroughs expanding the potential access of education- but also fragementing/dividing the world into digital haves/have nots. Even though only 3% of the continent of Africa is [...]

Discover LDI2019-08-22T11:33:22-07:00December 5th, 2009|

Thoughts from Doha and the World Innovation Summit for Education

The Qatar Foundation recently launched the first World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) in the capital city of Doha on November 16-18, 2009. Three years in the making, its overall objective is to take on the task improving/providing global access to education for citizens as a basic human right through promoting/scaling/replicating concrete initiatives [...]

Discover LDI2019-08-22T11:35:57-07:00December 3rd, 2009|