July 13, 2021
WHY SOCIAL JUSTICE EDUCAITON SHOULD START AT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Social Justice education needs to start in elementary school to educate our children to be kind, compassionate, and considerate human beings. My upcoming guest Rabia Khokhar is a veteran Elementary teacher in Toronto. Rabia is an Education and Equity Consultant, and she is passionate about equity and social justice education. Rabia and I will explore how Social Justice Education can be facilitated from Elementary School onward and why it matters immensely. Please join us and be part of this important conversation on July 13.
July 11, 2021
DANCE FOR CRITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION
My upcoming guests Heryka Miranda and Margia Shiriti will discuss how popular performing art like dance can be used as a powerful tool for creating critical consciousness needed for advancing social justice causes. Heryka and Margia are veteran dance educators who have used dance to educate communities in the USA and Canada about social issues connected to social justice. Gifted artists like my guests can move us profoundly and evoke powerful emotions like empathy and compassion in us that are critical for healing our collective and social wounds.
July 9, 2021
EXPLORING ROBOTICS EDUCATION IN BANGLADESH
My upcoming guest Shams Jaber is the pioneer of robotics education in Bangladesh, who brought a rare honor for us in 2020. Bangladesh became the World Champion in FGC 2020 competition. FGC (The FIRST Global Challenge) is a yearly Olympics-style robotics competition organized by the International First Committee Association. Shams is the founder of The Tech Academy that won the FGC championship in 2020. Shams and I will discuss the future of robotics education in Bangladesh on July 9 at 9 PM DHAKA TIME. Robotics has been and will profoundly impact Bangladesh. Hence, thinking critically about robotics education is monumentally important. We need to ask ourselves hard questions like: Who has access to robotics education? How can we democratize robotics education? Why should Bangladesh care about exponential technologies like Robotics and AI? And many more critical questions like these.
July 9, 2021
EXPLORING ROBOTICS EDUCATION IN BANGLADESH
My upcoming guest Shams Jaber is the pioneer of robotics education in Bangladesh, who brought a rare honor for us in 2020. Bangladesh became the World Champion in FGC 2020 competition. FGC (The FIRST Global Challenge) is a yearly Olympics-style robotics competition organized by the International First Committee Association. Shams is the founder of The Tech Academy that won the FGC championship in 2020. Shams and I will discuss the future of robotics education in Bangladesh on July 9 at 9 PM DHAKA TIME. Robotics has been and will profoundly impact Bangladesh. Hence, thinking critically about robotics education is monumentally important. We need to ask ourselves hard questions like: Who has access to robotics education? How can we democratize robotics education? Why should Bangladesh care about exponential technologies like Robotics and AI? And many more critical questions like these.