By Aleksandra Kostova | Digital marketing and Communications
Dear Friends,
Innovation and tech are changing the world we live in and education has to adapt to this better and faster. We, from Education Without Backpacks, see this need and devote our work to aid Bulgarian children to receive a world-class education for FREE. In the past four months we were focused on popularizing Khan Academy in Bulgaria and all the new great content in it, and to further our effort in building a healthy cooperation with the Bulgarian Ministry of Education.
National online contests in Math, Computing and Ecology & Biology with Khan Academy - results
For a third consecutive year, from March to June 2022, we organized our National students' contests with Khan Academy. Thanks to our amazing sponsors from eMAG Bulgaria, we were able to award 60 hardworking students and engaged teachers! The contestants were from all over Bulgaria - big cities, small towns, even villages! This really is a great proof that Khan Academy is inspiring anyone anywhere. This year we made a special event to award the winners in the contest in Ecology & Biology. We joined efforts with the Bulgarian Biodiversity Foundation, the Faculty of Biology of Sofia's University "St. Kliment Ohridski" and the “Sci-High” Foundation and together we organized the "Youth - for the Earth!" Festival. Apart from making it an unforgettable experience for our winners, we worked to increase the awareness and commitment of students and young people in Bulgaria on the topics of biodiversity conservation, prevention of environmental problems and adaptation to climate change
New initiatives and partnerships
“Arts and Math together - for more STEAM in Bulgarian schools with Khan Academy”
To enable students and teachers to learn/teach more about the arts and art history in an easily accessible, completely free way, we started the localization of Khan Academy Art History content. Initially, we started the translation process with some of our volunteers. After a successful grant application to the U.S. Embassy in Bulgaria, we launched a project that promotes free STEAM education for all Bulgarian students specifically through arts and math content on Khan Academy. Under this partnership project, currently we are translating two big art history courses from Khan Academy - Ancient Mediterranean and Modernisms 1900-1980. Another goal of the project is to create a free preparational course in Khan Academy for grade 7th math exam that all students obligatorily pass in Bulgaria.
KHAN4STEM exchange project with Belgium aiming to support the digital readiness of teachers
In the summer we met with the team of Libraries Without Borders - our partner in the Erasmus+ project Khan4STEM and also a Khan Academy langage advocate in Belgium.
We exchanged ideas on creating a handbook for teachers: how to integrate educational technologies in their teaching and support other teacher colleagues to work with new digital tools and resources.
The project Khan4STEM: More effective and inclusive European Math and Science Teaching - supported by the internationalized work of European Khan Academy Advocates - is financed by Erasmus+ program of the European Commission under Key activity 2.
Cooperation with the Ministry of Education on a new national online platform “Digital Backpack”
During the summer our team was consulting and supporting the Ministry of Education of Bulgaria for a new national platform which will be released and available for free for all schools in Bulgaria. We had cooperated with almost 90 teachers throughout Bulgaria for a complicated and important task. We hope that all teachers and students in the country will benefit from this new online platform.
New Khan Academy tool for Bulgarian teachers - LearnStorm
In October the LearnStorm tracker on Khan Academy will be available for all Bulgarian teachers! The tool helps to motivate the students on any task the teacher assigns them - whether they're completing assignments or practicing skills to reach a Mastery goal in a course, their progress will be measured by the tool.
This tool celebrates team success - we hope it will encourage students to achieve common learning goals and master more and more skills!.
New content on Khan Academy - this summer we published two new courses in Bulgarian - Computers and the Internet and Finance and Capital Markets, both of them translated entirely by volunteers!
Khan Academy localization for the period June 2022 – September 2022
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All this is possible thanks to the support of partners like the America for Bulgaria Foundation and the US Embassy in Sofia, as well as all your support!
Thank you so much! #YouCanLearnAnything!
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