SXSW EDU

97 SXSWedu 2016 Conference Overview About Special Programs Socials Tuesday Tuesday 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM Data Analytics Privacy Flash Forward: Today's Students Tomorrow Hilton | Room 408 | Problem Solver | #Berkman CPE Today's kindergartners start school surrounded by robots, per- formance trackers and other technologies aimed at helping them, monitoring them and investigating them. As these students grow, will technology act to empower them or is it creating a digital dossier they can't shake? Join the Student Privacy Initiative at Har- vard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society to explore the impact EdTech is likely to have on the futures of today's students both in the classroom and beyond. Leah Plunkett, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, Dalia Topelson Ritvo, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, Andres Lombana, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM Leadership Empowering Girls to Design a Better Future ACC | Room 17B | Workshop | #IDriveFor CPE Last summer, our team (Girls Driving for a Difference) spent 14 weeks crossing the U.S. in an RV, coaching leadership workshops for 1500+ middle school girls. Drawing inspiration from the Stanford d.school's design thinking methodology, we crafted our curriculum to empower girls to discover their abilities to create social change. Now we're ready to share our story and give educators the tools to spark this conversation with their own students. Our interactive session brings participants through our workshop, describes key insights behind it, and provides strategies for adapting our curric- ulum for other communities. Come join the journey and help our impact grow and live on! Katie Kirsch, Girls Driving for a Difference, Natalya Thakur, Girls Driving for a Difference, Rachel Chung, Girls Driving for a Difference 1:30 PM - 1:45 PM Arts Crowdsourcing a Children's Book About the Internet ACC | Room 15 | Future15 | #thesnail The vast majority of children's books about the Internet paint a bleak picture of addiction, cyberbullying, privacy abuse, catfishing, piracy and so on. In an effort to tell a different and more positive story, I successfully crowdsourced the writing and illustration of a children's book about digital culture (starring Hashtag the Snail!), collecting 4,200 creative submissions via Mechanical Turk. In this session, I describe the implementation and outcome of this creative experiment, and I present my conclusions about the conditions that best foster creative participation in large-scale educational projects online. Ioana Literat, Teachers College Columbia University 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM Leadership Future of EdTech: Consolidation or Fragmentation ACC | Room 19AB | Industry Talk Where is the market going? Where do you want it to go? Will the future hold a simpler, all-in-one management system for schools, or will the proliferation of new technologies lead to more fragmenta- tion and complexity? What resources do school and district leaders need to address today's challenges and have the flexibility to meet future demands? This panel will explore these questions and more in a lively discussion on the future of edtech and building a founda- tion for accelerating student learning. Eric Sheninger, International Center for Leadership in Education, Jay Eitner, Waterford Township 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM Instructional Strategies Speedometry: Teaching Physics Through Play Hilton | Room 412 | Workshop | #stemplay CPE This hands-on workshop enables teachers and after school staff to break the mold of traditional science instruction by using toy cars to teach physics. Speedometry is a free-to-use integrated STEM cur- riculum designed for 4th graders. It was developed by teachers and researchers in a first-of-its-kind partnership between the University of Southern California and the Mattel Children's Foundation. Using the 5E model of instruction Speedometry enables educators to guide students' inquiry into the physics of energy. Learn to engage both girls and boys in these exciting STEM lessons. The workshop includes a demonstration and the opportunity to teach through play alongside other participants. Fred Freking, USC Rossier School of Education, Tyron Young, USC Rossier School of Education 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM Instructional Strategies Exploring Interactive Learning Systems Hilton | Salon F | Workshop Keeping students engaged in today's classroom becomes more of a struggle as technology advances. Why not embrace these advanc- es and use them to your advantage. Come learn about some of our favorite learning platforms that both capture student attention and increase teacher productivity. Join us as we provide brief over- views and demo learning platforms like Google Classroom, Atlas Learning's Apollo, Nearpod and Blendspace. As an added bonus we will share a few of our favorite web tools that increase student engagement in the classroom like Kahoot, Padlet and BrainPOP's newest features! Jesse Sosa, Round Rock ISD, Katie Leining, Round Rock ISD, Lauren Derrington, Round Rock ISD 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM Implementation Running Experiments in Outer Space JW | Room 402-403 | Workshop CPE Learn how the emerging market of small satellites, CubeSats, are democratizing access to student space exploration. This workshop will include running hands-on experiments using CubeSat sensors in the classroom. These same sensors are available on a constel- lation of CubeSats for student experiments. Attendees will work with the tools used to design and upload experiments to satellite in low earth orbit. Data analysis and visualization of previous space experiment data will be used to demonstrate the tools for creating a shareable experiment portfolios. Kevin Cocco, Ardusat Inc. 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM Leadership Become Future Ready: Go Open! Hilton | Salon K | Workshop | #GoOpen Why Go Open? Join this workshop to learn the why and how of transitioning your school, district or state to using openly licensed education resources (commonly called OER). This workshop will be- gin with a brief overview of the Future Ready and Go Open move- ments, then quickly move to an interactive, hands-on workshop on how to begin or continue the process of transitioning to using openly-licensed education resources. We'll work through common challenges faced by educators in identifying high-quality resources, and hear how districts have made this transition. Participants will leave with a personalized next steps for moving their organization forward. Joan Lee, US Department of Education, Joseph South, US Department of Education, Philip Hickman, Columbus Municipal Schools

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