EdTech Summit Gives Teachers New Tools for the Classroom

More than five hundred teachers from across Belize gathered at the Belize City Civic Center today for the Ministry of Education’s second annual EdTech Summit, as educators explored how technology and artificial intelligence can transform teaching and learning. Held under the theme “Teaching Hacks,” the two-day event brings together teachers, school leaders, and industry partners to share innovative classroom strategies and find practical ways to make lessons more effective for students. There, we caught up with Chief Executive Officer in the Ministry of Education, Dian Maheia, to hear how this event will help teachers harness technology to transform learning in the classroom.

 

Dian Maheia, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Education

“Our focus this year is what we call teaching hacks. This is the largest brainstorming session in Belize. With the EdTech Summit, our target is to expose teachers, inspire teachers, get teachers to learn a little bit and share a little bit about things that they do that are their hacks, hacks that help them to save time, hacks that help them with space, with their curriculum. We have four themes. There’s hacking time, hacking space, hacking the curriculum, and hacking our imagination. So this is really about bringing everybody together to talk about things to help us all do our jobs better. EdTech is absolutely all tech related and education related topics, information, activities. So from talking about how you use various AI programs to the ways that we’re using whatever it is, the tools that are available now, exposing so that we can inspire, so we can encourage the tools that, you know, some teachers are really familiar with already, but they’re also exposing them to some new tools, some new ideas right now.”

 

Maheia says the learning will continue long after the summit, through an app that gives educators digital certificates, professional development credits, and access to future training opportunities.

 

Attention readers: This online newscast is a direct transcript of our evening television broadcast. When speakers use Kriol, we have carefully rendered their words using a standard spelling system.

 

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