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AND WE'RE BACK! I am beyond excited to announce that the third season of the Friends of Franz Podcast is finally dropping every Friday morning at 5 AM EST starting this week on December 1st, on all streaming platforms worldwide!I am beyond grateful for the support you have granted this passion project I have produced and hosted for the past three years: streamed in 100+ countries, on 6 continents, and ranked Top 30% Most Followed and Top 5% Most Globally Shared on Spotify Podcasts. Thank you for joining me in fulfilling my visions for the series: to educate the public through expert guests by challenging scientific misinformation, humanize healthcare workers by sharing their life stories, and bridge chasms within medicine by highlighting the underrepresented.According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, only 17.1% of physicians in the United States are Asian, 5.8% Hispanic, 5% Black, 0.3% American Indian, and 0.1% Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander. The AAMC also reports that only 36% of physicians are women. The UNESCO Institute for Statistics says that women make up less than 30% of the world's researchers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Undeniably, the fields of medicine and science remain male- and white-dominated.It became my tangible mission to invite expert guests from minority groups within medicine to contribute to the much-needed representation the public and patients need to see. Over the past two podcast seasons, my podcast guests have been over 70% female and over 70% of Asian heritage, as an ode to my Asian identity. The third season will echo this endeavor across 31 guests over 24 episodes, with 87% being women and 60% of Asian heritage. In this batch, we also meet experts from the Black, Hispanic, and LGBTQIA+ communities. I vow to introduce more members of underrepresented communities throughout the coming seasons.This season excites me even more because I have the honor of partnering with and sharing the stories of twelve Asian-founded brands that I personally love and adore. I cannot wait for you to hear more about their amazing products!I hope you join me in this adventure!

Recorded before a live audience at the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, this episode kicks off Season 5 of the podcast and starts a discussion about the many sociocultural aspects of multiculturalism. In this episode, I speak with Kyle Akins, the son of a US-American diplomat and a Japanese mother. Kyle has already lived in 8 countries around the world, although he is only 19 years old. The interview looks at how Kyle views his international upbringing, hones in on his social and individual development in this multicultural context, and explores his personal experiences in the various countries.   cultureum.com          @cultureumdrj      Linkedin: Dr. Henriette J. Runte

Today we explore the production of global learning metrics inside the UNESCO Institute for Statistics. My guest is Clara Fontdevila, a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Education at the University of Glasgow. Clara's newest article is entitled “The politics of good enough data. Developments, dilemmas, and deadlocks in the production of global learning metrics,” which was published in the International Journal of Educational Development. Today's episode was recorded in front of a live audience at the School of Education at the University of Glasgow. Thanks to Matthew Thomas for organizing the event. https://freshedpodcast.com/fontdevila/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

Did you know that there are 1 BILLION views of tutorial videos on Youtube?! Welcome to Episode 4 of Season 5! We continue to explore online learning and how services providing support for lifelong literacy are adapting. We start the episode with a discussion with Krystyna Slawecki, program manager for Montreal and Northern Quebec from Frontier College. Krystyna teaches us about Frontier college’s history in providing literacy services to Canada since the 1800s. Today Frontier college reaches over 40,000 participants across Canada! Frontier College is holding an online technology and literacy forum on Sept 30th. Register here: https://www.frontiercollege.ca/Get-Involved/Events/2019-National-Forum-Literacy-and-Civic-Engagement We are also joined for an in-depth discussion about the new online frontier of lifelong learning with Daniel Baril. Daniel is the Director-General at the Canadian Institute for Cooperation in Adult Education (ICAE) and Chair of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) Governing Board. Daniel talks about the key UNES.Doc Digital Library report Embracing a culture of lifelong learning: contribution to the Futures of Education initiative and a blog post he wrote on the new learning frontier that the sector is facing. We learn about how online learning has exploded to reach more people than ever but also risks increasing some inequalities and risks leaving people behind. What are the structures in the government and in our services we need in place to adapt and reach the people who need support and to push forward the agenda of literacy? Events Quebec City Reading Council's Travellin’ Toddler Activities are now online. Check their Facebook page for the next one: https://www.facebook.com/events/331432064629446/ The Learning Exchange is looking for online volunteers to help with their services https://tleliteracy.com/i-want-to-volunteer Literacy Quebec Annual General Meeting 2020 - Sept 29 5-6pm via zoom. For more: literacyquebec.org The Learning Exchange Annual General Meeting 2020 - Oct 6, 11 am TLEliteracy@yahoo.ca to receive the TLE AGM zoom Book Giveaway! Books and Hot Chocolate for adults and kids hosted by LQ at 4322 rue Wellington (please enter via garden) in Verdun. October 3 at 10 AM – 2 PM https://www.facebook.com/events/946654209159112 Western Quebec Literacy Council is hosting Smart Art: Family Graffiti in Campbell's Bay, QC Saturday, October 10 at 1 PM – 4 PM You need to contact WQLC to register in advance as there is limited space due to health protocols https://www.facebook.com/events/1639888489513234 Check out LQ's On the Road series hosted by our very own Chris to learn more about our member organizations! https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=3297573793696271&extid=06tGIvObWR2FdUE1

Show Notes This week, we review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episode 2 - "The Boy From Shangri La"/シャングリラの少年 - discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on some aspects of the Japanese economy on 1986: laborforce participation by youth and women, educational attainment, tanshinfunin, migrant labor, and... orange imports. Plus - another Japanese poem. - Chart of youth unemployment rate in Japan, 1970-2020. - Youth employment rate in Japan, 1979-1986. - Wikipedia page on the Japanese education system. - Wikipedia page on Japan in the 1980s. - Paper on labor force participation from the Bank of Japan Review. - Study on how tanshinfunin fathers affect children’s socioemotional development, from Hokkaido University. - Wikipedia page about migrant labor. - Page about migrant workers in Japan, from the Asia-Pacific Human Rights Information Center (based in Osaka). - Discussion and definition of the “natural” unemployment rate. - Paper on “Migrant Workers in the Post-War History of Japan” by Yasuo Kuwahara of Dokkyo University. - Paper on “Development of Immigration Policy in Japan” by Atsushi Kondo of Kyushu Sangyo University. - Unesco Institute for Statistic page (source for 1980 upper-secondary school completion rate). - “Education in Japan: Past and Present” (source for enrollment rates in upper-secondary school in 1980). - Text used for information on internal migration in Japan: Ishikawa, Yoshitaka. “Internal Migration in Japan.” Internal Migration in the Countries of Asia: a Cross-National Comparison, by Martin Bell, Springer, 2020, pp. 113-136. - Industry overview of the Japanese fruit-imports market (with historical background). - 1987 article from the South Florida Sun Sentinel about Japan lifting import quotas on American oranges in 1988 (I misspoke in the episode and said 1998). - Paper from the USDA’s Economic Research Service, “The Japanese Market for Oranges.” - 1983 paper from the Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, “Japan’s Quantitative Restrictions on the Importation of Agricultural Products.” - About the decline of the orange market in Japan since 1990s. - Paper on decline in orange consumption since mid-1990s: Mori, Hiroshi & Clason, Dennis L. & Ishibashi, Kimiko & Gorman, William D. & Dyck, John H., 2009. "Declining Orange Consumption in Japan: Generational Changes or Something Else?," Economic Research Report 55836, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service. - Online reference for the poem used in Saegusa's memorial, taken from the Hyakkunin Isshu poetry collection (百人一首), by Semimaru (蝉丸), a Heian era poet and musician. Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario. You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment. You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, visit our website GundamPodcast.com, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, or email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com. Mobile Suit Breakdown wouldn't exist without the support of our fans and Patrons! You can join our Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus episodes, extra out-takes, behind-the-scenes photos and video, MSB gear, and much more! The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licenses. The recap music for Season 3 is New York City (instrumental) by spinningmerkaba, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.. All music used in the podcast has been edited to fit the text. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, Sotsu Agency, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise, Bandai, Sotsu, or any of their subsidiaries, employees, or associates and makes no claim to own Gundam or any of the copyrights or trademarks related to it. Copyrighted content used in Mobile Suit Breakdown is used in accordance with the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. 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The African Union has set a target of 1 percent of GDP to be invested in research and development by African countries. But data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics show that only South Africa, Kenya, and Senegal are close to this target, investing around 0.8 percent of their GDP. Countries like Nigeria - Africa's largest economy currently spend 0.1 percent of the GDP compared to countries like Singapore, contributing 2.1 percent of the GDP. In this week's edition of the Africa Climate Conversation, Dr. Judy Omumbo, a senior Programs Manager at the African Academy of Sciences, explains why research is essential and if Africa is investing enough in research as it seeks to develop.

Welcome to the 18th EBU Access Cast! Since this is the first podcast for 2020, we wish you all the best in 2020 from the whole team, and we hope that you will get some nice new gadgets which will expand and improve your daily Living. We also made some improvements in our podcast since 2020, and that means from now on our podcast supports chapters Section, which means that if you want to listen something that specifically interests you, you can directly skip to your favorite chapter in your favorite podcast Player. The chapters do not work directly if you are listening the podcast from the web Player, therefore this is another reason why it is better to subscribe to our podcast directly from the podcast players such as Apple podcasts on iPhone or Podcast adict on Android platform. Now let’s jump into the news Section to see what we have prepared for you: This year CES 2020 was occupied by many more assistive technology vendors than on the previous CES events, which is absolutely a positive sign. Therefore we selected a few of the most interesting products which were shown for general public: First Braille tablet shown at CES 2020 While we don’t have too much technical information about the Tactile Pro, it is great to see that such devices are slowly getting into the mainstream and that braille as the most important form of written form for blind people is being updated into new device. Hap2Phone Allows Users to Feel Objects in Photos on Their Touchscreens Hap2U, a haptics developer specialized in integrating sensory intelligence into tactile surfaces, will unveil Hap2Phone, the world’s first haptic smartphone display, at CES 2020. While this device isn’t made for the end consumers, the concept of such a device might be very interesting for System integrators and OEM manufacturers. OrCam Announces New AI Hearing Device and Handheld AI Reader at CES 2020 OrCam is a known vendor from Israel. This time they decided to expand their product line towards the users with Hearing and reading problems with 2 new products. We don’t know what  the price of the products will be yet, however this does not mean that you should not visit their Stand on the upcoming assistive tech events such as the Sight City 2020 where you can try their products directly. W3C Launches an Introduction to Web Accessibility Free Online Course in Cooperation with UNESCO IITE On the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (UNESCO IITE) announced the launch of the online course built on the W3C’s Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) open curricula with international expert trainers from W3C Member organizations. [The MOOC begins on January 20, 2020.] How to make museums more accessible for disabled people? Ask them The Arches project took place in 6 different museums across Europe for the last 3 years and they came up with really interesting results which Pawel represented to us in the podcast. This time we prepared really cool news for visually impaired musicians: Building Raspberry Pi Smart Guitar for Blind, Deaf and Mute Musicians This really cool Instrument combines various tech solutions built into one device, allowing the users with seeing, Hearing or speech problems to use it as they wish. The users can choose to receive the information via built in small Display, read the information via built in braille Display or choose the built in buttons for going through the menus in the guitar, in case the users have speech problems which they can read thru the built in Display or hear it thru the built in Speaker. Avid and Berklee College of Music Team Up to Deliver Innovative Accessibility Features for Visually Impaired Music Creators Musicians who are visually impaired finally can get really excited, because Sibelius will become much more accessible for Jaws, NVDA and Voice over users in the near future. That means that the Level of integration will be much improved for students and musicians who need to utilize Sibelius for composing on the daily bases. For many years visually impaired community was struggling with accessibility of Sibelius which is in todays world one of the main tools used for composing and arranging, and it looks like that this will finally change. VIEWS International published the results of the VIPTech project, and Bart gave us more info about it. EUROPEAN DISABILITY FORUM AND ORACLE E-ACCESSIBILITY SCHOLARSHIP 2019-2020 If you are Student who is studding IT related subjects and if you are visually impaired you may want to apply to the following scolaireship till March 6th. Index Donation Program 2020 If your organisation is envolved with Braille literacy but you think that you are in need for a new braille printer you can apply to the following donation program and see if you wil be one of the winners. Applications are now open for the 2020 Holman Prize If you think that you are the next inventor who will change the future in our community, apply to the Holman Prize and get 25000 dollars. 2019 Holman Prize winner Yuma Decaux software engeneer, specialist in 3d and mixed media creating an app to enable blind citizen scientists to participate in the search for exoplanets by listening to space. Google Assistant Now Has Interpreter Mode on Android and iOS Devices We checked live in the podcast if the feature Works for the smartphones, and the result was very positive. Than we also checked if the same feature is available on the Android smartwatches, but weren’t sucsessful in getting it to work. That means that the smartwatch users will have to wäit a bit longer untill the interpretor arrives. However we were able to talk about another cool feature which allows all the users of Google Assistant to check their local air quality. IN order to activate it, just say “Talk to Air Quality Index”. After that the assistant will ask you for your location permmition, and after a few seconds you will get the results from the closest air quality measuring station. The last information for today Comes from Pawel who presented to us Z5NBY RetroArch 1.8.2 – Accessibility features for blind people. If you are a blind Gamer who likes the old style games like a final Fantasy this will be a great news for you, since you are able to play the game which you could not do it before. As always, we are here for you on our Twitter and e-mail so give us a Feedback about the last Episode, and we are looking forward to be back with you in February.

Irwin S. Kirsch is the Director of the Center for Global Assessment at Educational Testing Service. He earned his Ph.D. in Educational Measurement, Reading/Literacy from the University of Delaware in 1982. Since joining ETS in 1984, he has directed a number of large-scale assessments in the area of literacy including the National Adult Literacy Survey, and the NAEP Young Adult Literacy Survey. He was also a key person in establishing the International Adult Literacy Surveys and has directed them for ETS since 1993. In 1987, he received the ETS Research Scientist Award for his work in the area of literacy and was named as an ETS Distinguished Presidential Appointee in 1999. Kirsch currently manages several large-scale surveys including the Adult Education Program Study with the U.S. Department of Education and the Literacy Assessment and Monitoring Program with the UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Kirsch also chairs the Reading Expert Group for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and has been involved with several efforts aimed at defining and measuring information and communication technology (ICT) skills. In this area, he has directed an international panel for ETS that defined ICT literacy, has designed and conducted a feasibility study on ICT literacy for the OECD, and participates on an OECD advisory panel aimed at establishing a new survey of adult skills for the 21st century. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode, the instructional designers from Arizona State University’s Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation (Aaron Kraft, Celia Coochwytewa, and Jinnette Senecal) are joined by special guest Peter van Leusen from EdPlus at ASU to explore the features, functions, and flexibility of adaptive learning systems. We discuss the potential for improved learning outcomes, necessary considerations for successful integration, and the reality of using adaptive learning systems from the perspectives of instructors and learners. Resources from the episode: *Posner, Z. (2017, January 11). What is adaptive learning anyway? Retrieved from https://www.mheducation.com/ideas/what-is-adaptive-learning.html *Smartsparrow.com (n.d.). What is adaptive learning? Retrieved from https://www.smartsparrow.com/what-is-adaptive-learning/ *Edsurge. (2016). Decoding adaptive: Overview. Retrieved from https://www.edsurge.com/research/special-reports/adaptive-learning/ *Edsurge. (2016). Decoding adaptive: Definition. Retrieved from https://www.edsurge.com/research/special-reports/adaptive-learning/definition *Johnson, D. (2017, June 15). Opening the black box of adaptivity. Retrieved from https://er.educause.edu/blogs/2017/6/opening-the-black-box-of-adaptivity *Garn, M. (2019, March 13). Unfair at any speed. Retrieved form https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2019/03/13/personalized-learning-should-replace-higher-educations-unfair-fixation-speed *UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education. (2012, March). Personalized learning: A new ICT-enabled education approach). Retrieved from https://iite.unesco.org/pics/publications/en/files/3214716.pdf

Today we take stock of the Sustainable Development Goals, which were adopted by the United Nations three years ago. With me is Silvia Montoya who is the director of the UNESCO Institute of Statistics. UIS is charged with monitoring some of the SDGs. In our conversation, which we had on the sidelines of the Global Education Meeting in Brussels, we dive into the problems and challenges of trying to measure concepts such as literacy, global citizenship, and sustainability. Today’s episode of FreshEd was made possible through the support of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Tokyo and Education International. www.freshedpodcast.com/montoya email: info@freshedpodcast.com twitter: @freshedpodcast

Next week the CIES Symposium will take place where scholars and practitioners from around the world will come together to discuss and debate the desirability and feasibility of global learning metrics. I’ve had the honor of interviewing many of the speakers who will attend the symposium. And one things that has struck me during my conversations about global learning metrics is that often a universal meaning of education is assumed by the tests and those who use it. For instance, a 2013 OECD report that used PISA data was entitled “What makes Schools Successful?” Implied in the very title of that report is an assumption that there is a universal definition of success, as if all schools around the world agreed on what it means to be successful. Moreover, the report implies that it is PISA data itself that can reveal the answer. Perhaps more clearly, a 2013 report by the Learning Metrics Task Force, which is a multi-stakeholder collaboration organized by UNESCO Institute of Statistics and the Center for Universal Education at Brookings, was entitled Toward Universal Learning. The very goal of the task force seems to be reaching universal learning. But can there actually be one definition of learning and success? Is it possible, in other words, to have a universal notion of “good” education? This question has bugged me for some time, so I’ve invited Supriya Baily back to the show to discuss this idea of a “good” education in relation to global learning metrics. She points out how tests such as PISA are often culturally unresponsive and do not enable teachers to thrive. Although Supriya is hopeful that Global learning metrics can be meaningful with some revision, she cautions against universalizing concepts of learning or success. Supriya Baily is an Associate Professor at George Mason University and the Associate Director for the Center for International Education. She will present some of the ideas discussed today at the CIES Symposium next week. Check out www.freshedpodcast.com for more details.