Sure enough, I started to slow down by the third day of SXSWedu —you’ll notice there are fewer doodles for this day.
What Hath We Wrought?
Connectedness was supposed to help bring a more participatory culture. Danah Boyd explores some of the unintended consequences of social media, including media manipulation and polarization.
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Here’s the video from Danah’s speech if you want to follow along in my doodlenotes above.
Wednesday keynote: Danah Boyd (Microsoft Research/Data & Society)
Youth Publishing: How to Energize Emerging Writers
More than just a writing workshop, this approach helps students write and polish their stories — and then publish them as books (chapbooks), complete with public reading at the book release.
Andrew Griswold (The Telling Room)
Science or Art? Online Teaching & Learning
This team from Cambridge explained their approach to building an online environment to help students extend their knowledge and learning through semi-structured interactions.
Andrew Nye (Cambridge English Language Assessment)
Reinventing Corporate Education
Anant Agarwal (edX),Mark Cousin (Boeing), T.C. Haldi (MIT xPro)
We’re Doing Gamification Wrong: Kids Want to Learn
Unlocking extra game, a typical edtech attempt at motivation, doesn’t motivate kids as well as taking simple steps to promote their attention and engagement, as shown through this research.
Elliot Hedman (Curriculum Associates)
StudioLab: Transmedia Knowledge Pedagogy
This Future20 session took a quick look at how to help students structure a “suite” of media to present information to different audiences.
Jon McKenzie (Cornell University StudioLab)
Next: Wrapping it up for SXSWedu 2018…
Buller's back porch 