On 23rd and 25th May 2023, Dr. Saowaluck Kaewkamnerd, Educational Technology Research Team Leader of Communication and Networks Research Group and a representative of KidBright team, jointly provided information of KidBright in APEC Webinar: Digital Innovation and Educational Opportunities, which is an activity under APEC Project entitled ‘APEC PPSTI 01 2021 Digital Innovation and Educational Opportunities’. This project is mainly conducted by National Agency for Research and Development of Chile with the purposes of driving as well as promoting educational technologies for the improvement of child’s learning process within APEC economies, particularly the improvement of child’s learning process after the Covid-19 pandemic. Additionally, the project also emphasizes on gender equality by giving a precedence to educational technologies that are partly and/or wholly developed by women. In this event, KidBright was presented as 1 of the 5 best educational technologies that received the highest votes from APEC economies and be able to demonstrate suitability for supporting K-12 child’s learning process.
Apart from presenting KidBright through a video presentation produced by a content creator team from Chile (please find the link ‘KidBright’ attached here with), Dr. Saowaluck also provided details in perspectives of implementation, difficulties and challenges when applying KidBright with Thai schools, together with showing a future plan for this technology.
