Blended Learning: The Proof and the Promise – 2013 Skoll World Forum
Speakers
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CEO, SPARK Schools
Stacey Brewer believes that improving the state and esteem of education in South Africa will guarantee the global success of this country and create a prosperous future for all South Africans.
After completing her Bachelor of Science at Rhodes University, Stacey won a scholarship for the entrepreneurship MBA programme at the Gordon Institute of Business Science. There, Stacey channeled her investment in educational improvement into her thesis, which focused on a sustainable financial model for low-fee private schools in South Africa. This research served as the foundation for the establishment of eAdvance and SPARK Schools.
Stacey has been recognized as the Elle Boss 2015, Mail and Guardian Top 200 South Africans in 2014 and is also a Mandela Washington Fellow, which is Barack Obama’s flagship fellowship. Stacey graduated with cum laude and received the award for top student achievement in her class during her MBA.
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Education Lead, IDEO
Sandy Speicher leads IDEO’s Education practice, which takes a human-centred approach to creating positive impact in education, from designing tangible solutions for classrooms to addressing major challenges facing systems. Sandy has helped to create a scalable school model in Peru, strategies to improve schools for the poor in India and approaches to increasing teaching effectiveness in the US. Recently, she worked with Carnegie Corporation to launch 100kin10, which President Clinton referred to as a new model for social change.
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Salman Khan is Founder and Executive Director of Khan Academy, a non-profit organisation providing free, high-quality education worldwide. With an MBA from Harvard Business School, he began tutoring his cousin by phone and using an interactive notepad, then he posted videos of his tutorials on YouTube. In 2009 he committed fully to Khan Academy. Salman has been recognised in Fortune’s '40 Under 40', Fast Company’s '100 Most Creative People in Business' and TIME’s '100 Most Influential People in the World'. In 2012 he released his book 'The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined'.
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Director, Stanford University
Debra is focused on achieving a more just and sustainable economic system through collaborative action, human centered design and transformational systems change. She serves on the Boards of the Skoll Foundation, B Lab, IDEO.org, Imperative 21 and the global advisory boards of the African Leadership University and the Wellbeing project. She also works as an advisor to social ventures around the world.
Pre-Covid, Debra was a faculty member at Stanford University's d.school where she co-founded the FEED (Food Entrepreneurship, Education and Design) Collaborative.
Pre-Stanford, Debra was a business executive at Hewlett Packard where the common threads in her broad, 22-year career were driving large scale change, creating new businesses and producing positive social impact and good business results concurrently.
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CEO and Founder, GLOBALORIA
Dr. Idit Harel is a pioneer in using new-media technology for cultivating creative learning, innovation, and globalization through constructionist learning theory. An Israeli-American entrepreneur, she founded the World Wide Workshop in 2004 to leverage her award-winning research, business acumen, and education leadership in spreading innovative digital learning projects for benefiting youth and communities around the world. Most recently, the Workshop spun-out Globaloria as an independent company to scale its impact globally, through providing STEM, computing and game-making courses to schools worldwide and preparing youth for the global knowledge economy. Globaloria is the first-of-its-kind K12 learning platform with courses for teaching computer science, game design and coding. Globaloria has served over 17,500 students and educators, and is presently serving 8,000 students in fourteen states. Research has shown that Globaloria is scalable and effective, and educates students in technical and computational skills and content knowledge that results in improved academic performance and increased content and digital learning abilities. Dr. Idit Harel is also a published author and speaker worldwide, and has been serving on Advisory Boards and Committees at the MIT Media Lab, Harvard Graduate School of Education, CUNY Macaulay Honors College, Colorado University's ATLAS Institute, PBSKids Next Generation Media, MEET in Israel, TIG in Canada, and Saybot in Shanghai. Dr. Idit Harel holds degrees from Tel Aviv University (BA, 1982), Harvard University (HGSE EdM; CAS 1985), and MIT Media Lab (Phd, 1988).
