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How Teachers’ Pandemic Pivots Are Transforming Education in the 5G Era COVID-19 changed everything. Educators saw an opportunity to embrace digital tools and raise the bar on how students learn. Telus Created for     Mark Davidson remembers the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic as a “slow, rolling shock.” He could see it coming, but it was still jarring when it hit. “We heard from the government on a Friday that we’d be back in school on Monday. Then we heard on Sunday: ‘No, you won’t, and you need to enable at-home learning as quickly as you can,’” says Davidson,...

Reclaiming the future Climate change Climate change has highlighted the duty of current generations to those who come after us. Philipa Duthie explores some of the lessons we can learn from indigenous cultures and new moves to deliver intergenerational justice. Australia recently witnessed a watershed moment in the campaign for intergenerational justice. Eight teenagers led a landmark class action seeking an injunction against the expansion of a coalmine in Gunnedah, New South Wales, Australia. They argued it would “endanger their future” by contributing to ecological breakdown and that A...

5G to revolutionize the classroom with VR, AR and more The pandemic brought on a mass acceleration of tech by educators and students. The next generation of mobile networks will take that journey farther through immersive, collaborative learning tools. MobileSyrup utilizes affiliate partnerships and publishes sponsored posts. These partnerships do not influence our editorial content, though MobileSyrup may earn a commission on purchases made via these links. Over the last year, education in Canada changed radically as the pandemic closed schools and forced students and teachers ...

Short-term thinking in politics and business is laying waste to the planet. But the fightback is on, says philosopher and author Roman Krznaric <br>

To safeguard future generations, we must learn how to be better ancestors Roman Krznaric © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Marco Bertorello/AFP/Getty Images It’s hard to see history being made when you’re right in the middle of it – especially when life has our attention spans locked into minutes, days and weeks. But in the midst of a pandemic that understandably focuses our attention on the here and now, a new global movement is rising in the name of long-term thinking and intergenerational justice. Their target is the tyranny of the now. The politicians who see...