SXSW EDU

82 SXSWedu 2016 Monday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Instructional Strategies The Research University in the New Millennium ACC | Room 18ABC | Featured For the last two hundred years, research universities have been engines driving human progress and have paved a pathway of op- portunity for individual students, citizens, nations and humanity as a whole. Advances in the learning sciences, digital technologies and global collaboration provide an unprecedented and historic oppor- tunity to re-envision the research university in the new millenni- um. This session will focus on key trends impacting the research university, examples of alternative prototype curricular models and a new design intended to advance intellectual and creative freedom and to accelerate learning, discovery, creation and invention well beyond existing frontiers. Christine Ortiz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Jeffrey Young, The Chronicle of Higher Education 2:10 PM - 2:25 PM Continuing Education Aging: The Opportunity For Continuing Education ACC | Room 15 | Future15 The headlines scream, "Millennial generation is bigger, more diverse than boomers." Another reads, "10 million Americans turn age 65 everyday." What is missing from the headlines? A dialogue on the need for continuing education programs to introduce business and health promotion classes for adult learners of all ages. Continuing Education leaders are uniquely poised to bridge the information gap for an aging population. Remember, in 2050 as the youngest baby boomers reach age 85, their oldest millennial grandchildren will be ready to receive their AARP cards. Judi Bonilla, Advocates For Aging Cares 2:30 PM - 2:45 PM Educational Equality Improvement: Learning Fast to Implement Well ACC | Room 15 | Future15 Learning to Improve, a new book by Bryk, Gomez, Grunow and LeMahieu, details how Networked Improvement Communities (NICs) offer a new model for improving our schools. It highlights how NICs—organized to solve a single shared problem—can accel- erate improvements even further and actively engage many dif- ferent individuals and institutions in the process. The authors offer a new paradigm for R&D in education, one where the field moves from "implementing fast and learning slow" to "learning fast to implement well." Examples include reducing the high rates of failure among students in community college remedial math courses and strategies for improving feedback to novice teachers. Alicia Grunow, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM Gaming Minecraft–Education Edition Hilton | Salon B | Show & Tell Hosted by Microsoft: Millions of players and thousands of educators have already realized Minecraft's potential to engage students in a diverse range of subjects. Join us to learn more about the upcom- ing release of Minecraft: Education Edition and what it means for classrooms around the world. Daniel Bingyou, Microsoft, Steve Isaacs, William Annin Middle School 2:45 PM - 3:15 PM Cognitive Process Lifelong Learning in a Cognitive Era ACC | Ballroom EFG | Playground Talk Hosted by Office Depot: How do we break through to learners to more effectively develop skills that translate into career pathways? From early childhood through adulthood, the acquisition of skills and talent will become increasingly important. Education leaders can pave the way by leveraging data insights and cognitive capabil- ities to create new models for personalized education that improve and optimize learner outcomes. By utilizing cognitive capabilities, leaders can use data and technology to create a holistic view of the learner, unlocking insights that can assist when choosing the right learning context for the individual. Douglas Hunt, IBM 2:50 PM - 3:05 PM Leadership Beyond the Achievement Gap: Why Do We Educate? ACC | Room 15 | Future15 Are our schools designed to prevent another Ferguson or Charles- ton? Are we leading and working in schools that we would send our own children to? Academic proficiency, as measured by standard- ized tests, have come to wholly define success in America today. But other traits are just as important and need to be discussed, measured and valued in the same way. It is also important that our kids value difference, build connections and are compassionate and courageous. They need to consider the needs of others and the greater good. Schools can support a more cohesive and peaceful society, but we need to consider why we educate in the first place and what an impactful education requires. Kriste Dragon, Citizens of the World Charter Schools 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Data Analytics Capture the Data of Experience ACC | Room 19AB | Industry Talk | #xAPI As new technologies emerge, it can be a challenge to gather data from all of those sources to really capture the learning experience. The Experience API (xAPI) is an open source specification designed specifically for this use - gathering data from all sources to really represent what is happening and how it is happening in a learning environment. Learn about what xAPI is, how it works, and how you can use it to collect and analyze data from any source to capture the data of experience - and more importantly how you can use it to design for experience-centered learning. Margaret Roth, Yet Analytics 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM SEL Salam Neighbor ACC | Room 9C | Film Two Americans head to the edge of war, just seven miles from the Syrian border, to live among 85,000 uprooted refugees in Jordan's Za'atari camp. As the first filmmakers allowed by the United Nations to register and set-up a tent inside a refugee camp, Zach and Chris plunge into the heart of the world's most pressing humanitarian cri- sis. From meeting Um Ali, a woman struggling to overcome person- al loss and cultural barriers, to the street smart, 10-year-old Raouf, whose trauma hides just beneath his ever present smile, Zach and Chris uncover inspiring stories of individuals rallying, against all odds, to rebuild their lives and those of their neighbors.

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