20XX.EDU: Grand Challenges in Education (Part 1)

WEDNESDAY, 28 JULY | 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM

This panel, organized by the ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee and
Leonardo/ISAST, brings together a diverse group of outstanding
researchers and artists, academy and industry professionals,
educators, and government officials to discuss the future of education
in its broadest sense, encompassing both formal and informal learning.

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.

Panelists:
Marc Barr, Middle Tennessee State University
Roger Malina, Leonardo/ISAST and University of Provence
David T. Goldberg,HASTAC, University of California
Rebecca Allen, NOKIA Hollywood
Mary Lou Maher, National Science Foundation
Sarah Cunningham, National Endowment for the Arts
Glenn Entis, VanEdge Capital

20XX.EDU: Grand Challenges in Education (Part 2)

WEDNESDAY, 28 JULY | 10:30 AM – 12:15 PM

This panel, organized by the ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee and
Leonardo/ISAST, is a continuation of the conversation that begins in
Part 1 among a diverse group of outstanding researchers and artists,
academy and industry professionals, educators, and government
officials to discuss the future of education in its broadest sense,
encompassing both formal and informal learning.

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 and CNRS