SXSW EDU 2018 Schedule

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The 1% CAN Do It! Academic Instruction for SwD

2 Stories: Experiential Learning & Urban Renewal

Talk (Higher Ed)

#FailFest: A Learnshop on Risk-Taking

#WakandaForever: Black Panther Pop-Up Conversation

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Accidental Consequences of Student Privacy Laws

Achieving Equity with Open Educational Resources

Adult Education: It Ain't Your Granddad's GED

Continuing Education

AI in Education: Opportunities & Challenges

AI: Learning Game-Changer or Something to Fear?

Talk (Higher Ed)

Aligning Networks So Every Student Thrives

Alissa Cherry (Reel Works): Mentor

Amandla: Powering Everyone’s Potential

Ambient Intelligence for the Connected Campus

Learning Spaces

Talk (Higher Ed)

Amira Pollock (The University of Texas at Austin): Mentor

Andrew Frishman (Big Picture Learning): Mentor

Angeline UyHam (Cambridge Educators Design Lab): Mentor

Are We Coming into the Golden Age of OER?

Art as a Pathway to Health & Wellness

Art Education & Sensory-Friendly Programming

Talk (Playground)

Arthur Mills (Mills Management Group): Mentor

Asha Aravindakshan (Busca Tu Clase): Mentor

AT Innovations That Change the Education Landscape

Austin Mayor Meet Up

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Baller Teachers & Companies Who Work with Them

Beating Those 'Monday Morning Social Media Blues'

Becoming a 21st Century District

Belinda Neal (TEPSA): Mentor

Be Proud: Visibility of LGBTQ Educators

The Best Ideas in TX EDU: The Rather Prize

The Best Internet Filter Is Between a Child’s Ears

Informal Education

Beyond Buzzwords: Competency, Culture, & Equity

Beyond Mastery: The Six Elements of CBE

Beyond the Box: Reshaping PD for Urban Districts

Continuing Education

Beyond the Lesson Plan: Creative SEL Strategies

The Big Picture Learning Student Business Showcase

Black Education in America

Black Gotham: Immersive Storytelling & Technology

Black Teacher Sustainability

Blending Leadership: Strategies for Leading Change

Brain & Environment: Implications for Learning

Cognitive Process

Breaking Down the International Edtech Market

Breaking Tech Teaching Norms

Break the Mold: New Models Connecting EDU & Work

Continuing Education

The Breakthrough of Drone Education

Cognitive Process

Brian Jernigan (University of Colorado, Boulder): Mentor

Bridging the Gap: Connecting Tech Industry & HBCUs

Bridging the Gap: Piloting Innovation in Education

Bringing a Custom Coding Platform to Your School

Bringing the Science: Teaching with Authentic Data

Brooke Miller (The University of Texas at Austin): Mentor

Continuing Education

Building Edu Apps with Classroom, Blockly, & Poly

Building Education Models for Tomorrow’s Leaders

Talk (Industry)

Building the Social Emotional Learning Network

Business Minded Adult Education

Continuing Education

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Call to Action: Closing the Accessibility Gap

Can Personalized Learning Replace Testing?

Can Students Create VR? Short Answer: Yes!

Talk (Playground)

Capturing Data in Authentic Writers Workshop

Carlos Moreno (Big Picture Learning): Mentor

Carmen Strigel (RTI International): Mentor

The Case For Strategic Social Listening On Campus

Talk (Higher Ed)

Casey Agena (Haumana Ventures): Mentor

Learning Spaces

Catherine Pearlman (Brandman University): Mentor

CBE: The End of the Sage on The Stage

The Changemaker's Challenge

Change Testing Forever: Teachers Leading the Cause

Changing Guatemala One Dream at a Time

Choose Your Own Adventure: A PBS Edcamp

Informal Education

Choosing Love After Sandy Hook with SEL

Chris Delehanty (Del Mar Union School District): Mentor

Citizen-Ready & Crime-Free: The Pre-K Advantage

Close the STEM Gender Gap? Start in Kindergarten

Closing the Digital Gap in Urban Districts

Closing the Gap: Paths to Early Literacy Success

Closing the Soft Skills Gap with Video Assessment

Co-designing Better Outcomes for Young Children

Collaborate to Innovate

Continuing Education

Collaboration as a Path to Digital Equity

Combat Bias, Interrupt Privilege, Include All

Community College Meet Up: Learning that Excites

Community Voices: An Immersive Project Based Learn

Computation & Kids: High School Digital Humanities

Connect Dots: Engaging Your District’s Educators

Informal Education

Cooking Up Change to Teach a Healthier Generation

Informal Education

Courtney Teague (C7 Enterprises): Mentor

Create a Generation of Super-Students with Fitness

Creating a College Going & Success Culture

Continuing Education

Creating Book-Based Maker Learning Opportunities

Creative Collaborations

Creative Problem Solving: The Critical Future Job Skill

Creative Youth Development: A Movement & Mindset

CS Professional Development Recipes

Talk (Playground)

CUE CraftED: Open Pedagogy Approach to Learning Meet Up

Cultivating Millennials to be Authentic Leaders

Curating Accessibility

Cyndi Wiley (Grand View University): Mentor

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Dance Is a Story: How TPR Makes Learning Personal

Language Learning

Talk (Playground)

Daniel Luna (Education Project Management Consulting): Mentor

Data Diagnosis: U.S. Higher Education in Peril?

Data-Driven Decision Making in Action!

Deeper with Data: Evaluating SEL Implementation

Delivering on the Digital Promise

Democratizing Data for Student Attainment

Design 4 Impact: Design Thinking in K-12 Education

Designing Education Policies for Humans

Designing Lessons: Tips from Improv & Engineering

Designing the Next Super School

Designing Your Life

Design Protocol for Teacher Competency Development

Design Thinking Has a Pedagogy Problem

Design Thinking, Social Good, & Breaking Higher Ed

Dhairya Pujara (Ycenter Learning): Mentor

Digital Inclusion in Schools: Partnership & Policy

Disability or Special Needs - Which Is Correct?

Disrupting Medical Education in the Age of AI

Disrupting the School-to-Prison Pipeline

Disrupting the Walled Garden

Talk (Higher Ed)

DISRUPTION 1.0 – Change is an Opportunity

Learning Spaces

DISRUPTION 2.0 – Change Is not Familiar

Learning Spaces

Domo Arigato: Robotics in Public Education

Talk (Learning Expo)

Don’t Let Data Hold You Back

Do We Actually Care About International Students?

Do You Know Where Your Graduates Are Going?

Driving Engagement Amongst Youth of Color in Tech

Informal Education

The Dual Language Imperative

Language Learning

The Dumpster Project: Inspiration as Education

Informal Education

Dupe Aleru (SCALE High Program): Mentor

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Early Learning Spaces… Bringing a Dream to Reality

Learning Spaces

Edtech & Data Privacy: The Case for Transparency

Edtech: From Poverty to Powering Global Economies

Continuing Education

Edtech that Connects: Expanding Student Networks

Edtech & the Radical Disruption of Assessments

EdTechWomen Meet Up

Educating Across the Aisle

Educating Maker Kids in India

Learning Spaces

Educating Students in Recovery from Addiction

Educating Teachers: Closing the Digital Skills Gap

Continuing Education

Education by Design

Learning Spaces

Education from Cradle to Grave in Finland

EduTuber Meet Up: All Are Welcome!

Informal Education

Elizabeth Kleinrock (Citizens of the World Charter School): Mentor

Ellen Deutscher (Empathy2Action): Mentor

Empathetic by Design

Empathy Machines: Global Education via "Portals"

Employability & the High School Experience

Empowering Student Creators Through Public Media

ENCORE: Let's Teach About Race

Engaging Long-Term Stopouts

Talk (Higher Ed)

Engaging Millennials to Support Education

Engaging Parent Communities: A Blueprint

Engaging the Eye: Build Knowledge via Visual Art

Enhance Student Creativity with PBL

Enhancing Immigrant Family Engagement Through Tech

Language Learning

Equity, Advocacy, & Justice with EduColor Meet Up

Equity Innovations for Low-Skill Adults

Eric Klein (Ashford University): Mentor

Escape the Test! A Deeper Learning Puzzle Bus

Escape the Test! A Deeper Learning Puzzle Bus

ESSA Takes Hold: What K-12 Companies Need to Know

Talk (Industry)

The Evolution of MOOCs: Six Years Later

Continuing Education

Talk (Higher Ed)

Examining Our Faith in Educational Technology

Excellence Gaps: Where Equity & Excellence Meet

Expanding Maker Education Through Community Hubs

Learning Spaces

Exploring Global Citizenship

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Family Engagement in Hands On Learning

Informal Education

Talk (Playground)

Federal Student Aid's Next Generation Environment

Felipe Amaral (Semente): Mentor

Fellowships Are the Next Big Youth Extracurricular

Fidget Spinners, Mindfulness, & Flow

Cognitive Process

Field Tripping: The Future of Learning & VR

Financial Literacy: Ticket to Success in Higher Ed

Continuing Education

First Time to SXSW EDU Meet Up

Five Elements of Effective Thinking

Cognitive Process

Five Questions Empower Everyone with Design Thinking

A Flipped Future? Lightning Talks on Teaching

Floridalia Zuniga-Gray (Pflugerville ISD): Mentor

Language Learning

Foster Engagement in the Classroom Using Technology

Four State Approaches to Personalized Learning

Free College Comes with a Cost

Free Speech & Civil Dialogue Online & on Campus

From DC to Memphis: Solving the #StudentDebtCrisis

From MOOCs to Teach-Outs: An Emerging Course Model

Informal Education

From Page to Stage: Bringing Students’ Stories to Life

From the Student’s Seat: What’s Important Today

Funding Public Ed in TX: District & State Views

Fundraising While Millennial: Strategies & Secrets

Future-focused Success Opportunities for All

The Future of Learning: Convergence of VR, AR, & AI

Talk (Industry)

Future of Organizations: 6 Keys to Evolving Schools

Talk (Industry)

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Galvanizing Community Support for Education

Genes in Space STEM Challenge

Talk (Learning Expo)

Get Ready for Maker-Based Instruction

Getting Graduates Employed: A New Job for K-12

Getting to the Bottom of the Double Bottom Line

Talk (Industry)

Getting Uncomfortable with Urban School Reform

Get Your Hands on a Ton of Federal Education Data

Global Study Reveals Critical Future Job Skill

Go Big: Digital Educational Experience Design

Growing an Engaged Education Innovation Community

Growing the School Diversity Movement Meet Up

Guide to VR Worldbuilding

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Hate Online & in School: Building a Tech Resistance

HBCU Leadership on Race, Education, & Democracy

Hidden Among Us: Reaching out to Student Outliers

Higher Ed Solutions with Google

Higher Education: The Key to Local Economic Growth

High Expectations & Shared Responsibility for All

High School for Recording Arts 'Hip-Hop Pedagogy'

The Hip Hop Architecture Design Cypher

Hip Hop in the Science Classroom

How AI is Shaping the Future of Higher Education

How Do We Get (and Keep) More Girls in STEM?

How Dungeons & Dragons Can Save the World

Informal Education

How Educators Lead with Equity in Mind

How Our Unconscious Bias Affects Our Students

How “Special” Education Impedes Social Justice

How to Build the Future of Higher Education

Talk (Higher Ed)

How to Prepare Kids for Jobs that Don’t Exist Yet

How to Teach Designing a Creative Career

How Will Big Data Evolve Career & Job Search?

How Your University Can Act Like a Media Brand

Hudson Baird (PelotonU): Mentor

Human Skills for Digital Natives

Cognitive Process

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Immersion Education: A Clear Route to Success

Language Learning

Immersive Learning: Teaching History through GBL

Informal Education

Immersive Learning with Google

Impact of School Design on Student Engagement

Learning Spaces

Implicit Bias & Gen Z Hiring

Improvised Assistive Tech $5 Mystery Box Challenge

Inclusion of Students with Emotional Disturbance

"I Need A, I Want A" - Meet Ups the New York Way!

Informal Education

Innovating at Scale: Nationwide E-Learning Leaders

Innovation in the Early Learning Workforce

Innovation Underground

Inspiring Curiosity in Mathematics

Informal Education

Integrating Non-Curricular Programs in School

Interactive Arts Experience: CS+Game Design=Fun

Interlochen Arts Academy on Taking the Inside Out

Internet, Education, & Overlooked Populations

Invention Studio: Students Design for Social Good

Talk (Playground)

The Invisible 34%: First-Gen College Students

The Invisible Million: Homeless Students in the U.S.

Is Your Curriculum Digital Enough?

I've Got Rhythm: Poetry in Autism Education

Talk (Playground)

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Lady Boss: Female Leaders in Ed Entrepreneurship

Laila Sanguras (And Still We Teach): Mentor

Laura Hayes (EdisonLearning): Mentor

Laura Roye (Dripping Springs ISD): Mentor

Learning Spaces

Laurence Peters (Johns Hopkins University): Mentor

Leaders: Build Your Personal Destabilization Plan

Continuing Education

Leadership in the Most Difficult of Circumstances

Leading Across Boundaries

Leah Merrifield (Washington University): Mentor

Continuing Education

Learning is Arbitrage: Picking Skills That Pay Off

Learning Space Genius Bar

Learning Spaces

Let's Chat: Technology Creation vs Adaptation

Continuing Education

Let's Teach About Race

Letters to a Young AI: Be an Ethical Educator

Leveraging Student Interests: Internships at Scale

Lindsay Lamb (Austin ISD): Mentor

Localizing Global Ed to Strengthen Communities

The Long Game: Using Credentials for Continuing Ed

Continuing Education

Lyndsay Duthie (University of Hertfordshire): Mentor

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Make a Food Computer: Open-Sourced Tech in Classes

Makerspaces: Making Space for Diversity

Marrying Analytics with Action

Talk (Industry)

Mary Iannone (Breakthrough): Mentor

Mary Poffenroth (San Jose State University): Mentor

Continuing Education

Master the Forces Shaping Global EdTech

Talk (Industry)

Matt Reamy (Reamy Consulting Group): Mentor

Mayors & the Promise of College & Career Readiness

Media Literacy in the Era of Fake News

Melinda Schermerhorn (Round Rock ISD): Mentor

Melvin Hines (Upswing): Mentor

The Messy Living Room of Racism: Time to Clean Up

Microfilm & Stills: Art with a Webcam Microscope

Mindfulness & Student Voice

Mission Critical: Train Like the Army

Misty Maxwell (Sycamore Springs Middle School): Mentor

Mitch Goodwin (University of Melbourne): Mentor

Modernizing Learning Using Experiential Education

Talk (Higher Ed)

The Moth in the Classroom: Telling True Stories

Move Students (& your school) to Success with BOKS

Cognitive Process

Museum, Library, & Out-of-School-Time Ed Meet Up

Informal Education

Musical Map to Passion, Perseverance, & Practice

Cognitive Process

The Music Experience Design Lab and #HipHopMusicEd

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Pandora's Headset: The Ethics of VR in Education

Parents & Curriculum: Bringing Education Home

Partnering with Museums for Hands-On Learning

Passion Based Learning: Child-Guided Curriculum

Talk (Playground)

Passion & Purpose for Learning: What Is Your Why

The Perfect Blend: Practices for Blended Learning

Personalized Learning & Competency Education Meet Up

Personalizing the Online Experience

Continuing Education

Talk (Higher Ed)

Personal Sensors: Seeing Through Engineered Eyes

Talk (Playground)

Philanthropy 2.0 for Higher Ed & Workforce

Planting the Seeds for Success During K-12

Play It Forward: Sports & Higher Education

Talk (Industry)

Podcasting for Education Meet Up

Informal Education

Pop Quiz: Which Country Is Actually Leading Edtech?

The Power of a Problems-Led Engineering Program

The Power of Simulations

Language Learning

Talk (Higher Ed)

Put the "A" Back in Tech: Teach

Learning Spaces

Putting Learning Science Research to Work

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Rachel Hamstra (Duke Ellington School for the Arts): Mentor

Rachel Merrill-Schwaller (Grand View University): Mentor

Racial Equity & Restorative Practices in Schools

Ready to Code: Libraries Supporting CS Education

Informal Education

The Reality of AI in Education

Talk (Playground)

Redesigning a Modern-day College of “Fine’” Arts

Talk (Higher Ed)

Reducing Gen Ed to Improve Career Readiness

Reinventing Corporate Education

Restorative Mediation to Boost Understanding

Rethink Higher Education

Rethinking History (to Redesign Our Present)

Rigorous Whimsy: Understanding through Creativity

The Rise of AI & What It Means for Education Meet Up

Rise Up: Young Leaders Using Art For Change

Robb Doub (New Markets Venture Partners): Mentor

Robert Levin (Emerging Star Capital): Mentor

RUMBLE: Native Americans in Pop & the Classroom

Russell Long (Authentica Solutions): Mentor

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Science or Art? Online Teaching & Learning

Language Learning

Science Storytelling: Communicating Complex Ideas

Informal Education

Talk (Playground)

Scientist in Residence: In-Classroom STEM Mentors

Talk (Learning Expo)

Seamless Learning: Where the Classroom Never Ends

Learning Spaces

Season Mussey (Kaya Teacher Project): Mentor

A Seat at the Table: Creating Inclusive Spaces

Selfies, Sexts, & Self-Esteem: Girls & Social Media

Shannon Terry (Arlington ISD): Mentor

Shape of an Absence

Sheree Santos (George Lucas Educational Foundation): Mentor

Show Me the Money: Institutions & Affordability

Slam Poetry + Standup Comedy = Engaged Learning

Smarter Workforce, Smarter Car, Smarter Community

Soundtrack 63: Social Justice through Music & Tech

Sparking Creativity in the Classroom Meet Up

Specially Designed Digital Instruction

The Spiderman Principle: Teaching Ethical Hacking

Starting Fresh: Designing an Innovative School

The State of the K-12 Market Meet Up

STEM in the City: Experiential Learning at its Best

Steve Shapiro (FineTune): Mentor

Stories of Schooling & Getting Schooled

Strategies to Help Lower-Income Kids go to College

Talk (Higher Ed)

The Struggle Is Real-Rural, High Poverty Districts

Student Meet Up: Make Friends & Share Ideas

Continuing Education

Student Mindfulness Through Yoga & Hip Hop

Informal Education

Student Predictions, Student Protections

Students Can Build the VR/AR Worlds of the Future

StudioLab: Transmedia Knowledge Pedagogy

SXSW EDU 2019 PanelPicker Meet Up

SXSW edYOU! Kick Off Your Most Impactful SXSW Yet

Continuing Education

Synergistic Data Science & Causal Inference

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Tackling the Education to Employment Gap

Tactile Technology for Youth with Disabilities

Talk (Playground)

Taking Over Higher Education with VR & AR

Talk (Higher Ed)

Tales from Edtech Accelerators

Tamika L Lett (T. L. Payne Consulting): Mentor

Teach Access: Teaching About Accessible Tech

Teach Artificial Intelligence in Kindergarten

Teacher Externships Improve Student Employability

Teach for Equity: Building Communities of Practice

Teaching in the Machine Age

Teaching the Gift of Failure

Teaching the New Majority-Minority Generation

Language Learning

Teaching with Play & Pretend: Using LARP in School

Techbridge Girls: "Role Models Matter" Training

Technology-Friendly Grants for K-12 Classrooms

Texas: Getting Students On Course for Success

Learning Spaces

Theola DeBose (GraySide Media Group): Mentor

Think Globally, Act Locally! Discover & Implement

Tommaso Lana (Embodied Learning): Mentor

The Tough Love Advice Edtech Needs to Hear

Talk (Industry)

Toy Hacking, Robotics for the Rest of Us

Transcending Language & Learning Barriers in STEM

Trauma-Informed Education Policy & Practice

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(Un)Affordability in Higher Education

Unapologetically Outside of Our Lane for Children

UNCF CPI: Building Capacity Through Collaboration

Understanding the Challenges of Technology in Education

Unions & Charters: Who's the Bad Guy?

The United States of Student Civic Engagement

Using Art & Self-reflection for Cultural Inclusion

Cognitive Process

Using Assessment to Help Develop Great Teachers

Using Entrepreneurship as a Vehicle to Develop EQ

Talk (Playground)

Using Technology to Enrich Classroom Learning

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Want to Connect with LGBTQ Students? Try YouTube

WE over Me: From College to Movement

What Do Early Childhood Teachers Want from Tech?

What Do Kids Know? Building Systems for Learning

What Do the Polls Say about Education & Politics?

What Hath We Wrought?

What If? Unleashing Possibility Thinking in K-12

Cognitive Process

What Is & Who Should Be Afraid of Global Pedagogy?

What Makes a Teacher Community Excel

What’s Public About Public Education

When Silence Isn’t Golden: Speaking & ELLs

Language Learning

When Youth Lead: Arts-Forward Social Justice Activism

Talk (Learning Expo)

Who Has the Right to Education?

Who’s Got the Remote? Makin’ Learner Agency Real

Who Wants to Outsource Relationships? VR/Chatbot/AI

Why Innovate Alone? Harness the Power of Networks

Why I Won’t Ask for Help: Self-Advocacy for All

Why Science Fairs May be Humanity’s Best Hope

Why Tech-Enabled Teachers Flee the Classroom

World's First Makerspace in a Children's Hospital

Learning Spaces

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You Can't Solve What You Don't Understand

Your Privilege Is Showing

Youth Publishing: How to Energize Emerging Writers

Informal Education

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Zero to Eight: The Media Habits of Young Children