FROM BRITAIN WITH KNOWLEDGE

A couple of months ago we discovered an email in the mailbox of the Foundation. It was from Nursultan Dyussebayev, an employee of educational resource center under Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools in Astana.

– Nursultan asked to finance his trip to the international exhibition Bett Show (British Educational Training and Technology Show) in London – the coordinator of the projects of Elzira Aldangarova told to us. – He and his colleagues engaged in the development of digital educational resources for schools. Their products enable students to master the teaching materials in different subjects, and teachers – to use digital technologies in the educational process.

The exhibition was to gather the world’s leading companies in the field of educational digital technologies, learning, communication and exchange of experience which to Kazakhstani specialists is hard to overrate. The Foundation supported the request of Nursultan and in late January he visited London.

– My goal was to establish contacts with companies, communicate with developers to learn how they built the process of creating resources, see their products, and to analyze existing educational solutions to bring the best practices in Kazakhstan’s educational system – said the grantee, upon his return to the country. – And I managed to do it, although 4 days of exhibition – it is certainly not enough at all to accomplish those tasks. I learned new free resources, we discussed ideas and concepts for possible development with specialists from different areas. Through the trip, I learned more about the projects on the development of robotics and STEM education (science, engineering, technology and mathematics), and also – how to ensure that children learned the material more efficiently, – concluded Nursultan Dyussebayev.

During the exhibition the Kazakhstani specialist built bridges with 16 companies, including Discovery Education, TES Global (both UK), Arduino (Italy), Luxrobo (South Korea), The Dutch School (Netherlands) and others. N. Dyussebayev is the uthor of the course on robotics for secondary schools, that is now implemented in Kazakhstan’s  some schools. His portfolio includes digital resources for various subjects and projects for the development of the Kazakh language. BETT is an international annual exhibition of high technologies in education. This year the expo was attended by more than 900 organizations and about 35 thousand people from 138 countries.