Kelly Shiohira

Kelly Shiohira is the Director of the Global Science of Learning Education Network, an international network of more than 850 scientists, researchers, and education practitioners invested in the better integration of what we know about how we learn into learning experiences, in pursuit of better and more equitable outcomes. Kelly has a long history as an international education strategist and researcher and has worked across the value chain of planning, implementation and monitoring and evaluation to design, deliver and evaluate educational interventions, with a focus on low-income contexts. She particularly works in the fields of literacy, connecting education to the world of work, and the use of AI and Technology in Education. Her past projects include the Bridges to the Future South Africa 2 initiative, a literacy through technology programme in four African languages that won the UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy, and the PSET CLOUD, an ambitious initiative to create an interoperable data ecosystem in South Africa. Her recent publications include the UNESCO AI Competency Framework for Students, Understanding the Implications of AI on Skills Development, K-12 AI Curricula: A mapping of government-endorsed AI curricula, and Proceed with Caution: The Pitfalls and Potential of AI and Education. Kelly holds dual Masters’ degrees in International Educational Development from the University of Pennsylvania and African Languages and Linguistics from Rhodes University.