World Innovation Summit for Education 2019

Location: Ceremonial Court
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Time: 5:00 pm - 8:30 pm

This session is offered under WISE's Doha Learning Days program and is open to the public. It will offer hands-on activities that inspire innovation and creativity. Activities will involve the use of simple electronic circuits as well as coding.  

Speaker: Dr. Eman Fituri, Director of Educational Initiative, and Ikram Zidani, Business Analyst, at Qatar Computing Research Institute.

The three workshops are offered to school students under WISE's Doha Learning Days program. The objectives of each workshop are to educate students on:

• The basics of electronics and physical computing using Micro:bit.
• The basics of robotics programming using Cozmo robots.
• Elements of mobile app development using App Inventor.  

Speaker: Dr. Eman Fituri, Director of Educational Initiative, and Ikram Zidani, Business Analyst, at Qatar Computing Research Institute.

The 2019 Learners’ Voice Program aims to give young people a platform to voice their views and to create a youth community interested in shaping the future of education.

Juror: Nada Al-Mahmeed, Director of Translation and Training Center, Translating and Interpreting Institute, College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

This workshop will discuss why network science is important; how research is conducted on social networks; and what can be learned using social network analysis.

Instructors: Mark McKnight, Wyatt Israel, Marcus Alexander.

This workshop introduces a program that delivers lifelong learning and skills in a way that reflect the needs of local economies and people. It connects and amplifies different forms of formal and informal learning and training provision that exist, and creates valuable new progression pathways for learners into further learning, employment or civic opportunities via a system of digital open badges.

Participant: Dr. Amal Al Malki, Founding Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Human Centered
Entrepreneurship
Education:
Unlearn, Relearn
and Contextualize

This session will showcase the importance of embeddedness and local context in the development of entrepreneurship education. It will discuss existing entrepreneurship education programs, pedagogies and other educational technologies. The aim is to better situate and shape entrepreneurship education in order to create human-centered educational environments. 

Speakers: Dr. Evren Tok, Assistant Dean of Innovation and Community Engagement and Associate Professor of Global Affairs; and Bayan Khaled, Research Fellow at the College of Islamic Studies.                                                                                     

Agile governance aims to promote experimentation and transparency within public sector agencies so that they are able to break down their hierarchical and bureaucratic silos, however when there are multiple targets and differing policy objectives, it can be difficult to avoid internal conflict, especially when their funding and governing models are particularly difficult to change.  

Speaker: Dr. Leslie A. Pal, Dean of the College of Public Policy.

This session will look at the advantages of the Rayyan app, a screening, assessment, and analysis web and mobile app for the production of systematic reviews, developed by QCRI. The app expedites the initial screening of abstracts and titles using a process of semi-automation. It leverages machine learning to detect duplicates, learn from user behavior, and rank articles for quick screening.

This workshop discusses where the linguistic planning of Arabic stands in international schools and linguistic multiplicity in education in Qatar, and examines its impact on linguistic security and identity building.  

Speaker: Mohammed Ali Bahri, Arabic Language Coordinator, College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Whether or not one needs to unlearn and relearn is beyond question; the focus should be what needs unlearning and relearning. This session will explore this question in the context of modernity versus Islamic identity.

Speaker: Dr. Dheen Mohamed, Professor at the College of Islamic Studies.

New fields of genetics and genomics have revolutionized biomedical sciences and the ethical discourses around the complex questions they trigger. This session will focus on Muslim religious scholars, geneticists and the general public, and highlight ongoing research relating to genomics, Islamic ethics and public engagement.  

Speaker: Dr. Mohammed Ghaly, Professor at the College of Islamic Studies.

Professor Max Tegmark will present recent technical research on Artificial Intelligence carried out in his group at MIT. In particular, we will discuss ways of building AI-systems which are simpler yet equally powerful compared to current black-box neural networks. Simpler models are often more trustworthy precisely because they are more understandable.

Speaker: Max Tegmark, Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Location: QNCC, Majlis Area

Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

This discussion will investigate the pros and cons of social media and how it plays a role in youth's learning practices.

Speaker: Bayan Khaled, Research Fellow at the College of Islamic Studies.

Meet Up
Session 

As the world faces an increasing number of environmental challenges, this talk looks at why sustainability education is important and how research institutes contribute towards it.

Speaker: Dilraz Kunnummal, PR, Communications, and Outreach Specialist, Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute

As future workforce requirements are changing rapidly, this session will discuss whether regional universities are ready for the future, and how digital and online learning can transform higher education.

Speaker: Dr. Marwan Khraisheh, Senior Research Director.

This talk will help students build moral perspectives about global problems.

Speaker: Dr. Evren Tok, Assistant Dean of Innovation and Community Development and Associate Professor of Global Affairs at the College of Islamic Studies

Edtech
Testbed
Roundtable 

This roundtable event will convene a diverse group of education and edtech stakeholders including edtech entrepreneurs, school practitioners, and experienced leaders within the edtech testbed field.

Speaker: Dr. Amal Al Malki, Founding Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

The discussion will highlight the importance of digital education and the need to offer online learning programs that address key global issues such as climate change, renewable energy, sustainability and ethics.

Speaker: Dr. Marwan Khraisheh, Senior Research Director.

Location: QNCC, Ground Floor

Time: 7:30 am - 7:30 pm