If you are attending SIGGRAPH this year, don’t miss Grand Challenges in Education panel discussion. I will be there and will fill you in if you were not able to attend. - Cornell
20XX.EDU: Grand Challenges in Education (Part 1)
New digital technologies for human expression and communication have given birth to a 24/7-connected worldwide community that offers individuals and institutions a myriad of new models for shared, interactive learning. Information from a variety of digital devices that we now carry with us at all times is reshaping the way we perceive the world and interact with it. Online collaboration and social networking now play a major role in how we acquire and spread knowledge.
How can educational institutions take advantage of the increasing popularity and dissemination of these technologies? How can individuals and institutions benefit from the massive increase of participatory and collaborative learning in our society? What are the major challenges in education today, in the sciences and the humanities? What are the new educational trends and paradigms for the coming decades? What kind of new learning contexts can be created outside of traditional institutions?
The recent MacArthur report on The Future of Learning Institutions in the Digital Age provides one set of responses to these questions. This panel continues the conversation.
Marc Barr Middle Tennessee State University Roger Malina Leonardo/ISAST David T. Goldberg HASTAC, University of California Rebecca Allen NOKIA Hollywood Pamela Jennings National Science Foundation Sarah Cunningham National Endowment for the Arts Glenn Entis VanEdge Capital
20XX.EDU: Grand Challenges in Education (Part 2)
Panelists
Marc Barr Middle Tennessee State University Donna Cox NSCA James Foley Georgia Institute of Technology Andy van Dam Brown University Victoria Vesna University of California, Los Angeles Roger Malina Leonardo/ISAST