In the context of a rapidly evolving world with exponential technological changes, more than 200 speakers and 150 sessions will drive conversations to shape the future of education at the 2019 World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE).
The summit, taking place from November 19-21, will see educators, experts, thought leaders, and decision makers from around the globe gather to reimagine the future of education, discussing the behaviors, skills, and traits we must unlearn and relearn to flourish in the 21st century around the theme ‘UnLearn, ReLearn: What it means to be Human’.
Hamad Bin Khalifa University will be participating in WISE 2019 and will play an active role in the event’s activities. As part of the summit, HBKU experts will be involved in interactive discussions, roundtables and meet up sessions throughout. For more information on the university’s participation, please refer to the below schedule.
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.
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
Location/Time
Session
Topic
Description
Location: Ceremonial Court
Container 1
Time: 8:30 am - 9:30 am
Exploring Micro:bit
Coding
and
Electronics
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.
Location: Ceremonial Court
Container 1
Time: 9:30 am - 10:30 am
Coding with Cozmo
Location: Ceremonial Court
Container 1
Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Basics of Mobile
App Development
Location: QNCC
Room 236
Time: 9:00 am - 1:30 pm
Learners’ Voice
Debate Competition
Education
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.
Location: Penrose House (LAS building)
Ground Floor, Room A019B
Time: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Workshop
Network
Science
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.
Location: QNCC
Room 214
Time: 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Workshop
Learning Ecosystems:
Designing Spaces to
Deliver Lifelong Learning and Skills
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.
Location: QNCC, Ground Floor
Time: 7:30 am - 7:30 pm
Book Sale
Qatari School
Leadership Portraits:
Lessons Learned
from Education
for a New Era Reform
A book by Dr. Asmaa Alfadala, Director of Research and Content Development at the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE). The publication speaks about the past and present of Qatar’s education system. It reflects on the importance of school leaders’ role amid the reform, and the progress that has been made by the implementation of the reform despite several challenges that school leaders and teachers have encountered. Organized by: HBKU Press.
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Location/Time
Session
Topic
Description
Location: QNCC
Majlis Area
Time: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Launchpad
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.
Location: QNCC
Room 104
Time: 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Ministerial
Roundtable
Agile Policymaking
and Implementation
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.
Location: QNCC
Majlis Area
Time: 12:30 pm - 1:45 pm
Pitch It
Session
Rayyan,
the Systematic
Reviews App
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.
Location: QNCC
Room 104
Time: 12:30 am - 12:55 pm
Meet Up
Session
Rebuilding our Linguistic
Identity: How do we
relearn the Arabic
Language?
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.
Location: QNCC
Majlis Area
Time: 1:30 pm - 1:55 pm
Meet Up
Session
Unlearning Aspects
of Modernity and
Relearning our
Islamic Identity
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.
Location: QF Booth
2:00 pm
Meet Up
Session
Genomics, Islamic
Ethics and the Public
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.
Location: QNCC, Ground Floor
Time: 7:30 am - 7:30 pm
Book Sale
Qatari School
Leadership Portraits:
Lessons Learned
from Education
for a New Era Reform
A book by Dr. Asmaa Alfadala, Director of Research and Content Development at the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE). The publication speaks about the past and present of Qatar’s education system. It reflects on the importance of school leaders’ role amid the reform, and the progress that has been made by the implementation of the reform despite several challenges that school leaders and teachers have encountered. Organized by: HBKU Press.
Thursday, November 21, 2019
Location/Time
Session
Topic
Description
Location: Researchery (HBKU Research Complex),
Multipurpose Room
Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Public Talk
Intelligible Intelligence
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.
Does Social Media
Promote or Hinder
Students' Educational
Experience?
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.
Location: QF Booth
Time: 11:30 am - 11:55 am
Meet Up
Session
Sustainability:
Students and
Schools:
Changing
the Future
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
Location: QF Booth
Time: 12:30 pm - 12:55 pm
Meet Up
Session
Where are the Middle
East’s MOOCs?
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.
Location: QNCC, Majlis Area
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Braindate
How to Integrate
Global Citizenship
and the Sustainable
Development Goals
of the UN in Education
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
Location: QNCC, Room 104
Time: 2:15 pm - 3:30 pm
Edtech
Testbed
Roundtable
Challenges and
Opportunities in
Building Edtech
Testbeds
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.
Location: QNCC, Majlis Area
Time: 2:15 pm
Launchpad
Digital Education
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
Book Sale
Qatari School
Leadership Portraits:
Lessons Learned
from Education
for a New Era Reform
A book by Dr. Asmaa Alfadala, Director of Research and Content Development at the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE). The publication speaks about the past and present of Qatar’s education system. It reflects on the importance of school leaders’ role amid the reform, and the progress that has been made by the implementation of the reform despite several challenges that school leaders and teachers have encountered. Organized by: HBKU Press.