Meet Our SXSWPanelists
Highlights from Bringing Back the Lost Generation
- The societal impact of educational poverty cannot be overstated.
- We need to move boldly to re-engage students, building on the lessons from programs that have been doing this work for decades.
- The pandemic opened opportunities to question assumptions about where and how learning should take place.
- It's crucial to design for what students value, and not just return to the programming that didn't serve them before.
Highlights from Tomorrow’s Principal Podcast: Will AI Be Your Next Principal?
- Principals' responsibilities are unsustainable—and growing.
- There is interest in having AI take some things off their plates, but exploring AI is one more thing for principals to do.
- Lessons from integrating past technologies into education give us pause. But waiting to explore is also a risk.
Highlights from Our Tools, Ourselves: What We Become As Realities Mix
- Our sevles are dynamic, continuously evolving through interactions with new ideas and technologies.
- This constant of reshaping selfhood is central to understanding our relationship with technology.
- Technology enables new forms of empathy and understanding, transcending traditional boundaries like geography and language.
- It’s crucial that we reflect on the influence we have on others through the technologies we use or create.
Highlights from Redefining Privacy & Cyber Security in the Metaverse
- Ensuring a safe, beneficial Metaverse experience is very complex.
- It will require balancing the need for privacy, security, and positive personal impact with the challenges of governance and law enforcement in virtual spaces.
- Already, there are positive VR experiences, like group therapy on aNUma platform and VR concerts.
- More user-friendly authoring tools may increase personal agency and positive behavior.
Highlights from Our Tools, Ourselves: What We Become As Realities Mix
- Our selves are dynamic, continuously evolving through interactions with new ideas and technologies.
- This constant reshaping of selfhood is central to understanding our relationship with technology.
- Technology enables new forms of empathy and understanding , transcending traditional boundaries like geography and language.
- It’s crucial that we reflect on the influence we have on others through the technologies we use or create.