The Catalyst Community connects global education leaders to engage with like-minded peers committed to taking action for change and improvement in education.
During the second global launch event for Catalyst, which brought together more than 100 education thought leaders, government and ministry officials and school delegates in Johannesburg participants, ranked EdTech impact and Learning spaces as the most important in today’s learning environments
The Johannesburg attendees were asked to share additional topics that are necessary for education transformation. The broad range of responses included problem-solving for students and addressing administration overload. The full list of topics fell into seven themes including system, culture, support, student competencies, curriculum, infrastructure, goals, and partnerships.
Collaboration was ranked as one of the highest attributes needed for a successful community. Providing a safe space and place to share ideas, gain insights on special projects, get support for research and the standardization of best practices and to compare data costs, new technology and setting norms are just a few of the discussion topics within the collaboration topic.
To summarize the needs for Catalyst and the community, the following four themes were consistent and pervasive throughout the one-day Johannesburg launch. To truly transform education, Catalyst will need to be:
- Real and relevant,
- a resource for practical solutions,
- practical in its approach to separate corporate and learning participants; and
- tactical with its guidance on education technology, learning environments and global approach.
