Tag Archives: SXSWedu
If you missed this year’s SXSWedu conference and need a reason to attend in 2014, watch the below video. It’s a clip of the entrepreneurs of SchoolYourself, who created highly interactive trigonometry, pre-calculus, and calculus activities for the iPad; and it’s also a peek into the brilliance and innovation that is just starting to develop [...]
We had the opportunity to sit down with edtech entrepreneurs and thought leaders in the education industry earlier this month at the South by Southwest Education Conference (SXSWedu). In the below video, we interviewed Tom Vander Ark, founder of GettingSmart.com, who discussed the following topics: Improvement opportunities in the education system Interest-driven learning Competency-based learning [...]
At the South by Southwest Education Conference (SXSWedu) earlier this month, Compass Learning facilitated a series of informal chats with “edupreneurs” and distinguished speakers. In this session, we had the opportunity to speak with 17-year-old author of One Size Does Not Fit All: A Student’s Assessment of School Nikhil Goyal. He told us about his [...]
SXSWedu (South by Southwest Education Conference) features four days of compelling presentations and informative sessions from education professionals, industry leaders, and policy practitioners committed to engaging all learners. It is an offshoot of the highly successful interactive, film, and music conferences held every year in Austin, Texas. SXSWedu started three years ago with about 600 [...]
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SXSWEdu 2013 is officially in the books! Thursday’s Bill Gates keynote was interesting, and my favorite part was actually when Mr. Gates was not speaking. He closed out his time by interviewing three education CEOs, and each of them focused on one of the three major themes of the sessions I attended this week: Personalized [...]
The traditional K-12 classroom, once a place for exploration and growth, is now a confining environment, said Gene Wilhoit in his SXSWedu presentation titled, “How Do We Drive Innovation in Public Schools.” Just last month, Wilhoit was named Director of the National Center for Innovation in Education established at the University of Kentucky to focus [...]
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