Alana Levy will be a junior at Cornell University and is majoring in government. Heather Prime will be a junior at the University of Virginia and is majoring in psychology. The two are roommates in Paris this summer and have an internship in the Education...

Paris by night, a panoramic view ! J ennifer Corriero, cofounder of TakingItGlobal , let the audience imagine what the world would be like if everyone had the ability to recognize their own voice and achieve their dreams. Her website, TIG, has already...

The table this round focused on teacher training. Education essentially begins with the teachers, whether the school has access to multimedia technology or not. Teachers, however, may be a barrier to change because they are often reluctant to try new...

After lunch, a new panel took the stage, ready to deliver their own ideas and solutions to the problems posed earlier in the day. Professor Diana Laurillard , of the Institute of Education in London, discussed strategies for optimizing the potential of...

ICT in Classrooms After the panel, the tables took 45 minutes to discuss and reflect on the ideas presented in the panel. I was lucky enough to sit in on the table with five different countries represented. There was little banal talk and the table...

Forum facilitator, Robert Mittman , entered the stage with a smile wide across his face. His upbeat demeanor was coupled with an optimistic, inspiring statement, “The word of the day,” he declared, “is action . ” He conceded that one does not spontaneously...

Professor Alice Dautry , Managing Director of the Pasteur Institute, kicked off the conference by relating the Pasteur Institute’s history of research spirit to the collaboration of minds to occur in the Institute today. The task for UNESCO, explained...