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Liberating Education through Technology and Vision with Dwayne Matthews
Moving education to an online format has forced change on educators bound to an inflexible system. With students ranging from fluent digital natives to completely terrified, making education user-friendly is a challenge that will take collaboration with students.
Dwayne Matthews is the Chief Innovation Evangelist, and Future of Education Strategist who helps school boards, educators and parents understand new and evolving themes in the 21st century, the future of work to prepare children to thrive in a rapidly evolving digital information-driven world. As an XPrize Connect Advisory Board member, he contributes to the XPrize Connect Future of Learning Lab which will create a vision of an equitable and sustainable future for education and technology. The aim is to help young learners around the world reach their full potential.
Education is becoming more accessible and self-directed with the introduction of technology combined with ingenuity.
“When I was in high school, I had to learn about Robert Mugabi, the former president of Zimbabwe. Tyrant to many. For me to do that, I had to go to my neighbor who had the encyclopedias that went past the A-D I had (remember those kits would be like $5,000). There’d be a small bit of writing but it wouldn’t be enough. Then I would have…
