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Education for Sustainable Development and COVID-19 in Southern Africa: Intersecting Perspectives on Why Water, Food and Livelihoods Matter in Transforming Education for Sustainable Futures Year of publication: 2021 Author: Heila Lotz-Sisitka | Injairu Kulundu | Rachel Neville | Anna James | Ayanda Buhlebenkosi Moyo | Esthery Kunkwenzu | Domingos Carlos Mirione | Gibson Mphepo | Kgosietsile Velempini | Lwanda Maqwelane | Phila Dyantyi | Rutendo Mushishi | Selemani Abdul Makwita | Yeukai Musariri | Zenani Mhlanga Corporate author: JET Education Services | Rhodes University The main question of this book is โWhat can we learn from this intersecting crisis for transforming education for sustainable futures in southern African countriesโ.The research process will generate a few additional questions including, but not limited to:Can stronger school-community-government partnerships help to reduce risks and challenges such as those being faced now under the COVID-19 crisis?What can our governments do better?What can communities and parents do?What can educators and learners do?What systems need to be generated to ensure an alternative, transformed future and what is the role of education in this story? 
International Forum on AI and Education: Steering AI To Empower Teachers and Transform Teaching, 5โ6 December 2022; Analytical Report Year of publication: 2023 Author: Fengchun Miao | Kelly Shiohira | Zaahedah Vally | Wayne Holmes Corporate author: UNESCO | JET Education Services The International Forum on AI and Education has contributed โto peace and security by promoting collaboration among the nations through education, science and cultureโ (UNESCO, 1945). The Forum has now become the worldโs leading event promoting knowledge-sharing, the understanding of peoples, and the achievement of international agreements, in the fast-developing and increasingly impactful field of AI and education. The fourth edition of the International Forum on Artificial Intelligence and Education aimed to foster knowledge sharing specifically on how to steer the design and use of AI to empower teachers and to transform teaching methodologies within the broad framework of digital transformation of education. The Forum sought to bring together a range of expertise and experiences across the globe, and, in keeping with UNESCO priorities, a special focus was placed on Africa. A total of 16 national strategies were presented at the Forum by the various national ministers and representatives invited to attend. The national strategies shared during the Forum also unveiled the varying levels of preparedness and policy responses toward AI across different regions, a reminder that the pre-existing digital divide still underpins the system-wide uptake and integration of AI in education. Therefore, not all of the strategies were directly related to or containing AI because some areas that were represented at the conference are still at the nascent stages of AI Strategy development. The presentations of national initiatives and strategies related to AI from these countries shed light on the general awareness of policy-makers on the impact of AI in education and the commitment of national governments to fostering AI competencies among students and teachers. This report focus on the following key themes: national strategies on AI and education; critical reviews of roles of AI in the digital transformation of education; ethical principles and their implementation with a specific focus on gender equality; AI competencies for teachers, and notable algorithms or AI platforms and AI-informed pedagogies. The report concludes with considerations for the future based on the authorsโ own analysis of the key role of human teachers, steering the human-centered approach, mainstreaming gender equity, designing education-specific AI models and innovative pedagogy, and ensuring human agency in defining problems and designing solutions.a