Last week, the Israeli-American Council and the Tel Aviv University Online Innovative Learning Center hosted the two-day "Zoom Out" e-summit to reimagine the future of education in the era of coronavirus.
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The two-day program featured a wide array of panels and one-on-one conversations, as well as breakout sessions and online networking opportunities with other summit attendees, with the goal of gathering international educators to learn the best lessons and models to take and implement in informal and formal classroom settings.
The coronavirus pandemic, along with changing the day to day activities of governments, businesses, and individuals, has posed serious challenges to the future of education. However, despite the hardships, on an optimistic note, the panelists said the coronavirus pandemic has brought about an increased collaboration among Jewish organizations. They agreed that the crisis could and should be used as a stepping stone to improve and to strive for a "higher quality" of content and programming in Jewish day schools and summer camps.
"We definitely want to see this crisis end soon, but we don't want to miss the opportunity to keep all the great things that are currently taking place as a result. Expanding collaboration between organizations, elevating the quality of content of programs to a whole new level, making Jewish and Israel education affordable and accessible to all. Now that we have re-imagined education for two days, it is time to go ahead and build it," said IAC Co-founder and CEO Shoham Nicolet.
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