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The Science Behind Intel® SFI

The 4th Industrial Revolution has integrated digital technology into every aspect of our lives. Employers today seek workers who come prepared with new ways of thinking and solving problems. While demand for physical, manual, and basic cognitive skills is declining, higher level cognitive skills, social-emotional, and technological skills1 are much in demand. Education leaders are looking to foster these future-ready skills in ways that feel as natural to students as learning math and language skills.

Additionally, the Covid-19 pandemic has dramatically accelerated technology use around the world. Educational systems have pivoted to sustain learning in classroom-, remote-, hybrid-, and blended-learning environments. This has brought into sharp focus the need for built-in, long-term, resilient systems, as chronicled by a recent UNESCO International Bureau of Education Report.2

Download the Future of Education in a Post-Pandemic World white paper.

These moves toward greater access, flexibility, robustness, and equity are a good start, though most of them happened without much foresight, and need technology to be much more robustly integrated into a future-ready education system.

Our framework guides decision makers and educators in adapting technology and creating learning opportunities that actively engage students around the world. We inspire teachers and learners to reach their full potential by encouraging higher order thinking, empowering them to build their skills from anywhere and maximizing outcomes that prepare them for a technology-infused future.

1. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/01/reskilling-revolution-jobs-future-skills
2. https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000373229

Authoring Team

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Mr. Veerappan Swaminathan

Founder and Director of Sustainable Living Lab, Panelist of the Lotus-NUS Fund, Steering committee for the Singapore Science Festival. Former YSEALI Professional Fellow at the US State Department. Joseph Jaworski Next-Gen Foresight Asia Special Award recipient.

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Ms. Nicole Nash

Assistant Director of Professional Learning and Curriculum and Assessment Specialist at Harvard University Graduate School of Education. Former Dean for Special Services, Achievement First Providence Elementary School, Providence, RI.

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Ms. Martha Mulligan

Local School Council teacher rep, Adjunct Lecturer for Northwestern University. Winner of Fulbright Distinguished Award in Teacher Semester Program.

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Dr. Uma Natarajan

Former principal officer of teacher PD research (Southeast Asia) in HEAD Foundation and Researcher in Center for Education Policy Research, Harvard University.

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Prof. Derek Bell

Former Chief Executive of the Association for Science Education (ASE) and Head of Education at the Wellcome Trust. He was appointed Professor of Education in The College of Teachers and awarded an honorary Doctorate of Education by Manchester Metropolitan University in 2011.

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Dr. Ashley Tan

Former Head of the Centre for e-Learning, National Institute of Education, Singapore. Ph.D. in Instructional Systems Technology, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA.

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Mr. Balamurugan Krishnasamy

Director, Centre for Micro-Credentials Singapore Institute of Management Bachelor of Arts, National University of Singapore and Post-Graduate Diploma in Education and Leadership in Education, National Institute of Education, Singapore.

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Ms. Madeline Upton

Specializes in Key Stage 1 and 2 education. Art and Design Teacher for Key Stage 3, 4 and 5, Kent, England. Link Teacher for “Youth Action Group” for Kent Safe Schools project.

Intel in Education

Intel partners with educators to integrate new technologies and foster skills in innovation that better prepare students for the workplace of the future. Together with government, nonprofit, and industry leaders around the world, we promote digital equity and access to help students master anywhere learning, and we advocate policies that encourage new ideas to empower the next generation of innovators.

Building Resilient Education Systems

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Cigdem Ertem, Global Director for Public Sector & Education Sales discusses the key elements of building resilient education systems.

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For more information about how to get started with Intel® Skills for Innovation in your education environment, please have your district technology administrator contact an Intel® Partner Alliance Member.

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