GEMS Education Hosts The First Innovation Speed Networking Event For Schools in The Middle East
Dubai, UAE: As part of the UAE Innovation Week, GEMS Education in partnership with 'Introduce My School arranged an innovation speed networking occasion on education technology (EdTech) for all GEMS schools. The half-day event was a fun and also effective intro for the teaching community to sophisticated products and services to boost innovation in education.
The event, held at The Preschool Starters school, saw 16 of the world's leading and up-and-coming innovative EdTech companies, that were chosen to showcase their items in a fast-moving and amazing new format of speed-networking-- an initially in the Middle East.
Established in January 2010 in the UK, the Innovate My School community reaches more than 50,000 friends as well as fans through unique occasions, community update, Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. The principle is meant to inspire the education field by showcasing, through a variety of systems, the best in education innovation by teachers as well as industry experts from around the world.
Phil Redhead, Senior Manager - Digital Strategy Innovation, R & d System at GEMS Education, claimed: "GEMS schoold have lengthy embraced digital learning as a vital element of 21st-century education and also a medium through which we aim to impart our four core values of leading with innovation, pursuing excellence, growing by finding out and also global citizenship.
" This is a great possibility to explore some of the best EdTech resources on the marketplace, to consider how these can add worth to our institutions' electronic understanding methods, and to connect with the companies in addition to peers from all various other GEMS colleges."
Michael Forshaw, Founder and Managing Director, Innovate My School said: "We have actually spearheaded speed connecting with 130 school teams and also 1,517 institutions in the UK, so to be asked to deliver a session for GEMS is, obviously, a great honour as well as incredibly interesting. Bringing together the most effective of British EdTech innovations, entirely customized to the requirements of the GEMS schools, and also at once and place that matches their calendars, is mosting likely to be of great benefit to all involved."
Asha Alexander, Principal of the host school, The Preschool Starters, said: "Kid are the modification agents and also have a large amount of responsibility for producing the world they wish to stay in Educators and also school administrators, for that reason, have a fantastic obligation to help with that change. KGS has always headed adjustment and also innovation as well as the 'Innovate My School' platform will inspire to bring instructors together like never before."
The occasion was attended by Principals, Vice-Principals, School Digital learning Officers/Chief Digital Administration, Educational program Supervisors, Mentor and Discovering Leaders/Coaches and Senior Leaders throughout the GEMS Education network.
