Events matching tag "education"
Friday, March 7
Pioneering nonprofit 'Projects For All' is democratizing access to education by implementing digital infrastructure (Hello Hubs) in developing countries. Recently, the nonprofit launched ‘Project: Hello World’, an instal…
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Katrin Macmillan, Lane Merrifield, Roland Wells, Sophie Kelly
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP25626 It…
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Amadeus Stevenson, Barry Whyte, Elizabeth Lukas, John Ridpath
SXSW provides a fascinating opportunity for higher ed technologists to network and learn about an array of new interactive technology ideas and discoveries. At this meet-up, Penn State IT tech enthusiasts invite you to j…
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Cynde Fleagle, Patti Fantaske
Does the recent explosion of MOOC’s into the education marketplace threaten to destroy traditional post-secondary educational institutions in it’s path? Or is it just another fad in a long history of educational movement…
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Dave Hinger, Jeff Meadows
It is projected that by 2050 Africa's GDP will be bigger than the GDPs of the U.S and China combined. The continent as a whole has been growing at over 5% annually for close to a decade. This trend if maintained means th…
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Frank Aswani, John Kidenda, Rick Reeder, Takalani Malivha
Saturday, March 8
Familiar with SXSWedu? SXSW extends its support for the art of engagement beyond musicians, actors, and technologists, to include society’s true stars...educators. One of the newest components of the SXSW Family of Conf…
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Ron Reed
Do you need a publicist? Maybe so, and maybe no. Come get some hands-on information about the modern role of the PR person, and how that impacts filmmakers today. Sign Up Here: http://mentor.sxsw.com. Mentor session …
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Gerilyn Shur, Jim Dobson, Marian Koltai-Levine, Rene Ridinger, Sylvia Desrochers, Ursula Liang, Weiman Seid, Whitney Kimmel
The idea that technology can revolutionize STEM education is not new. However, research suggests that some of the emerging new technologies, software, and platforms available have been shown to change the way students an…
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Kim Magloire
Digital literacy is the future of communication and commerce and creates learning experiences that develop students' capacities for critical thinking, creativity, imagination and innovation. Digital communication require…
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Bruce Pennycook, Doug Dempster, Jennifer Ransom Rice, Warren Spector
Over the past decade there have been 424 hurricanes worldwide, resulting in 165,000 fatalities. Ten of the 12 most costly hurricanes in U.S. history occurred during this time period—including Hurricane Katrina in 2005 an…
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Andrea Basora, Corey Pieper, Leslie Chapman-Henderson, Wendy Harman
Gamers grow up and become parents. But societal values make gamers feel bad about time spent gaming, prompting players to retire controllers once babies are born. But gamers do not have to choose between parent and gamer…
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Carla Fisher
Sunday, March 9
Join Dean Kamen, a master inventor, engineer and humanitarian, compared to Edison for his contributions to humanity, for an unforgettable and insightful hour. Inventor of a host of groundbreaking inventions like the Auto…
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Dean Kamen
Peter Thiel awarded William LeGate a grant of $100,000 to drop out of school and pursue what he’s passionate about as part of Thiel’s controversial Thiel Fellowship program. Listen to LeGate talk about his experience lea…
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William LeGate
Technology has fundamentally changed the way we think about knowledge, and classrooms are inevitably going to undergo deep structural changes in the next decade to reflect this. No policy will be able to prevent this. In…
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Connor Zwick
As massively open online courses (MOOCs) become wildly popular, many have advocated a future of learning without teachers. But great teachers are still critical for learning. In this talk, Charlie Stigler (founder of edu…
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Charlie Stigler
Attention all Burners (and potential Burners!) We're hosting a Burning Man meetup at SXSW! Join Burning Man's communications, ticketing and tech teams from our San Francisco Headquarters to chat about the future landscap…
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Megan Miller
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are in their early stages of being developed for delivery of educational content. Current structural limitations inhibit everything from sophisticated game based learning to simple ema…
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Dawn Zimmaro, Donna Kidwell, Janet Walkow, Ross Strader
Current figures from the American Diabetes Association show that 8% of the U.S. population, or 25.8 million people, have diabetes. This is a large percentage of the populace that needs to manage a chronic health issue. …
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Brian Sherwell
Monday, March 10
At the intersection of technology and capitalism—mediation and competition—parents are raising children in a world that is much different than it was 20 years ago. This panel features David McCullough Jr., a high school …
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David McCullough Jr
Expression of any kind begins with an impulse. Impulses that have been nurtured within safe spaces flow with greater freedom. Those impulses that were squelched by unsafe spaces have difficulty finding expression. Today,…
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Humberto Perez, Mark Olsen
Every month, the tech industry adds about 9,600 jobs to the U.S. economy. By 2018, it will have added another 1.2 million new jobs, boasting an average salary of $78,000. But women make up just 22% of the computing workf…
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Baratunde Thurston, Laura Weidman Powers, Mario Lugay, Ryan Seashore
It is one of our enduring enigmas: iconic endeavors—from Nobel Prize-winning discoveries to entrepreneurial inventions and works in the arts—are often not achievements, but conversions, corrections after failed attempts.…
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Sarah Lewis
Tuesday, March 11
What happens when you combine ideas from one of the oldest art museums in the US with one of the world's edgiest research labs? Sensors bringing eighth-century Tang dynasty Chinese tomb guardians to life? Foldable electr…
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Juliette Fritsch, Stacie Slotnick
Eejot is a non-profit organization that runs computer training centers in remote areas of Nepal which has minimal or no electricity. In last two years, we have taught 100+ primary, middle school and high school students …
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Prabhat Jha
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