February 23, 2012

Expert Q&A

Q&As With Innovators and Experts

Dialogue Online asks innovators and experts around the world to weigh in on timely education topics. Browse and see what they have to say about issues including school management, student enrolment, demographic shifts, new teaching models, technology and more.
Rob McEwen

Rob McEwen

Creativity and Communication

The Order of Canada recipient and gold entrepreneur shares his thoughts with Dialogue magazine on what 21st-century skills are essential to prepare students for their future.

 

Juliana Rotich

Juliana Rotich

Technology and Innovation

Co-founder of revolutionary crowdsourcing web platform Ushahidi shares her thoughts with Dialogue magazine on what 21st-century skills are essential to prepare students for their future.

 

Samuel G. Freedman

Samuel G. Freedman

Curriculum and Teaching

Samuel G. Freedman, award-winning author, New York Times columnist and journalism professor, shares his thoughts with Dialogue magazine on what 21st-century skills are essential to prepare students for their future.

 

Michael Zwaagstra

Michael Zwaagstra

Global, Communication & Mathematics

Michael Zwaagstra co-authored the book What’s Wrong with Our Schools and How We Can Fix Them in 2010. His columns promoting common-sense education reform have been published in major daily newspapers such as the National Post, Globe and Mail and Winnipeg Free Press.

Karyn Gordon

Karyn Gordon

Communication

Karyn Gordon is a youth and Generation Y expert, corporate and family consultant, motivational speaker, and author with a mission to empower youth to understand and reach their full potential. She has shared her knowledge, insights and advice with diverse audiences, from corporations and teachers’ conferences to more than 1,000 private and public high schools.

Battiste

Marie Battiste

Cross-Cultural & Communication

Marie Battiste, a Mi’kmaq educator
from the Potlo’tek First Nation in Nova
Scotia, is the academic director of the
Aboriginal Education Research Centre
and a professor in the Department of
Educational Foundations at the University
of Saskatchewan.

Sherry Turkle

Gwen Colman

Global & Cross-Cultural

Gwen Colman is the youth program
director at GPI Atlantic in Halifax. GPI
Atlantic is a non-profit research and
education organization that advocates the
application of a new way to measure a
nation’s well-being through the Genuine
Progress Index instead of GDP.

Sherry Turkle

Daniel R. Woolf

Cross-Cultural, Creativity & Communication

Daniel Robert Woolf is the principal and vice-chancellor of Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. A historian and Queen’s alumnus, he had previously served as a history professor and dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.

Cary List

Cary List

Finance

Cary List is the president and CEO of
the Financial Planning Standards Council
(FPSC), a non-profit organization raising
awareness about the importance of
financial planning, and developing and
enforcing professional standards for
financial planning.

 
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