Freestyling Over The Horizon
The pandemic has been a daunting blind run, with downslopes and upslopes and zig zags. As we learn to breathe in new altitudes, we’ve also gathered new research and new skills that could become permanent fixtures of our new reality. Sessions in this track address the core question: Where do we go from here? Join us for value-led conversation and working sessions to explore and further visions for the future.
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9:00 a.m. Olympic Keynote
| Learning Futures: Designing the HorizonDr. Sean Leahy | Director of Technology Initiatives, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University The maxim we cannot predict the future, but we can invent it (and its derivatives) is often cited as a call to engage in design and strategic forecasting tools and methodologies. Join us as we create a space to explore what we describe as Learning Futures. Visualize with us how we might rethink our teaching and learning environments by harnessing the opportunities of our collective uncertainty. We will explore emergent strategic foresight frameworks as we consider multiple future scenarios to reveal the risks and opportunities of disruptions, and propose strategies for engaging in futures thinking in your own organizational contexts. |
10:45 a.m. Olympic Village Breakout Sessions
Innovating the Future of Learning: Schussing Downhill With Driving K-12 InnovationKeith Krueger, CEO of CoSN | Kim Flintoff, Technology Innovation Design Entrepreneurship Sustainability Coordinator Snap-on your skis, put on your goggles and join us as we explore what innovation looks like during remote/hybrid learning in a pandemic. This may be the best time for a transformation of learning. Find out about the key 2021 trends from CoSN’s Driving K-12 Innovation initiative: hear about the Hurdles, Accelerators and Tech Enablers that global experts agree are most important NOW. Your coaches will help guide you to the future of learning so you can win a gold medal leading the innovation conversation. |
11:45 a.m. Olympic Village Breakout Sessions
| Graduate Assistant Professional Development During and After COVIDKhara Lukancic | Assistant Lecturer for the Department of Cinema and Photography, and Program Coordinator at the Center for Teaching Excellence, Southern Illinois University CarbondaleKarla Berry |Director of the Center for Teaching at Southern Illinois University Carbondale Benjamin Bradley|Graduate Assistant, Center for Teaching at Southern Illinois University Carbondale Often professional development is reserved only for faculty. At the Center for Teaching Excellence at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, we strive to provide multiple professional development activities for graduate student instructors (in addition to our programs for faculty) because we believe that graduate students can innovate and not rely on the simple mimicry of their teaching mentors. In this discussion, we will explore the experience of the graduate student instructor by sharing our professional development strategies, as well as engaging in an interactive activity to brainstorm alternate paths and opportunities for the graduate student instructor. In this activity we will use a digital whiteboard platform to brainstorm and play a game of educational chutes and ladders -- adapted as ski slopes and obstacles -- so that we can transform teaching and learning from the perspective of the teaching assistant. |
12:30 p.m. Let's Do Lunch
“Outrageously Yours” Showcase your Triple AxelCome in off the learning slopes for virtual hot chocolate, conversation with colleagues and an opportunity to playfully explore our collective vision for learning + living in the digital age. This first of three daily lunch sessions focuses on a combination of your best serious and silly/outrageous ideas to produce positive change. Bring your creativity and imagination! |
10:45 a.m. Short Track Hack(athon)
Watch Now | Pedagogical Athletes: Faculty of the Future, A Rapid Ideation SessionDr. Minu Ipe | Managing Director & Vice Chair, University Design Institute, Advisor to the President, Arizona State University Join University Design Institute as we use a rapid ideation approach to envision the nimble, athletic, and fast-paced Faculty of the Future. How might we collectively help train these current and future pedagogical Olympians? |
10:45 a.m. Olympic Village Breakout Sessions
Riding the Chair Lift: A Bird’s Eye View to Navigate the Digital DivideMichelle Sullivan | Director of Strategy and Partnerships, Office of Applied Innovation, ASUFaith Dalzell | Student Innovation Analyst, Office of Applied Innovation, ASU Bailey Shaw | Student Innovation Analyst, Office of Applied Innovation, ASU Jasmine Chase, Student Innovation Analyst, Office of Applied Innovation, ASU Mukta Marathe, Student Innovation Analyst, Office of Applied Innovation, ASU How “digital” is the digital divide? Not very— as we will see through taking this panoramic view of the digital-divide-slopes during the Winter Games. Through this interactive session, we will explore how the divide is shaped by political, social, cultural, and economic factors—and, more importantly, how we are mindfully incorporating technology into efforts to avoid the massive snow drifts we and our learners face. We hope you’ll join us as we ski through a variety of ways to shape our work, our partnerships, and our questions to ensure that digital solutions are holistically considerate of the diverse factors that influence complex systems. |
4:00 p.m. Fireside Chat
| Heart of InclusionDiversity and inclusion is a trending topic in today's world. We seem to be in a race to implement these programs on campus, at work and in life. This is great but now the real question is: Do we understand the inherent benefits of our efforts or are we checking off a box and moving on? The reality is success in this venture requires ongoing, collective collaboration and hard work. The process is unique to each person and situation. So by having an emotional understanding, we are likely to have greater success in our efforts. It's all about the past, present and future coming together and saying “Where do we go from here?” This talk explores the relationship between diversity and inclusion and how these concepts benefit all of us. We will explore how bias drives decisions and how communication, adaptability and belief that perceived impossibilities are possibilities are the key to success in our efforts. |
5:00 p.m. Après-Ski
| Winter Games Musical Artists ChallengeMusic provides a singular experience for all who listen. Songwriters and musicians inspire us. They take us out of our current space, feelings and thoughts and into something new. Join us in the virtual ski lodge for an evening of live music! This interactive Musical Artists Challenge is designed to provide opportunities for musicians and Winter Games attendees to engage with each other through video, audio performance, and live chat. Come listen, chat with the artists and vote on who you want to hear from next! ASU has also convened a panel of judges who, inspired by your votes and comments, will award musical medals at the close of the concert. Performers:
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10:45 a.m. Short Track Hack(athon)
| The Future is Fun: The Transformational Power of PlayDavid Thomas, Ph.D. | Executive Director for Online Programing at the University of DenverLisa Forbes, Ph.D. | Assistant Clinical Professor, Extended Studies, School of Education & Human Development, University of Colorado Denver Wouldn't be fun if you had fun in your online classroom? Oh, yes it would! So, what's stopping you? Fear? Shame? The agony of defeat? Well, we dare you, no we double-dog dare you to stare down the cliff of uncertainty and jump. In this workshop we will discuss the power of play, and why it can transform teaching and learning. As we have all been pushed online and forced to use more technology than ever, the engagement, motivation and community-building aspects of play have never been more important. Once we've established that ground, next we will inventory your fears around having fun in your classroom, work through solutions to overcoming those fears and finally develop personal plans to get you zooming toward the benefits of play. And, yes, we will do it all in a playful interactive way that brings the ideas and your fears to life. How do people learn to ski jump? It all starts with the courage to get to the top of the hill and then a friendly push. Hang on -- we promise this is gonna be fun! |
10:45 a.m. Olympic Village Breakout Sessions
We Care a Lot: Humanizing Teaching through TechnologyLeigh Graves Wolf | Clinical Associate Professor, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University Digital tools that were once at the periphery for some, are now central to our daily lives for all. This breakout session will start by sharing a curated list of possibilities, practices and promises for embedding analog care between the cold digital 0s and 1s in educational spaces. Then, we will move on to collectively engage in interactive brainstorm that models caring practices while simultaneously generating more possibilities and hope. | |
| Learning with Embodied Avatars in the FutureEmory Craig | Cofounder and Partner at Digital BodiesMaya Georgieva | Director, Education Futures, XReality Are you ready for a thrilling double black diamond run? Is your avatar ready? Let's explore how learning is transformed when we begin to replace ourselves with digital representations in virtual environments. Our identities impact our online behavior, but studies have shown that the reverse is also true - our online personas impact real-life behavior. We'll examine cutting-edge research and examples of avatars to understand the ethical challenges of multi-user virtual environments and the provocative questions they raise. Let's explore the use and psychology of avatars to ensure that virtual learning is based on equity, diversity and inclusion. Join us as we co-create a future that doesn't confine itself to a promise of technology but instead fulfills what it means to be human. |
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