Resetting education: lessons from Sesame Street on helping a generation at risk. This week’s Great Reset podcast

  • Date: 02-Oct-2020
  • Source: World Economic Forum
  • Sector:Education
  • Country:GCC
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Resetting education: lessons from Sesame Street on helping a generation at risk. This week’s Great Reset podcast

TV show Sesame Street is teaching children around the world about COVID.

Sesame Workshop has used digital technology to educate children at the world's biggest refugee camp.

The pandemic has disrupted the education of 1.6 billion children, the UN says.

Sesame Workshop's Sherrie Westin joined the Forum's Great Reset podcast to talk about the charity's work and her hopes for a reset in education.

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Sesame Street and its colourful troupe of puppets have been breaking down social barriers, teaching maths and having fun for more than 50 years.



In recent months, the groundbreaking US TV show and its characters like Kermit the Frog and Cookie Monster have been helping spread a new message - how to stay safe from COVID-19. Its programmes