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INTRODUCING: OUR NEWEST PARTNER IN INNOVATION
Dear Reimaginers,
This week, our focus shifts back to the new: new technologies (the Internet of Things), new partners in innovation, and new speakers announced for November’s event.
The newsletter kicks off with the announcement that we’ve chosen to partner with Setapp, a technology company whose talented team of software developers are providing solutions across multiple platforms: web, mobile, virtual reality. They’re also passionate about educational innovation, and publish articles on the topic via their in-house publication, The EdTech World.
The EdTech World will be sharing content via our newsletter over the coming months, and the first article explores why teachers might be resistant to incorporating educational technology into their classrooms. The observations made are designed to be valuable to readers from ed tech startups, and underlying them all is one essential principle for those at the intersection of education and technology: that the preferences, knowledge, capabilities, and concerns of teachers cannot be ignored by those who wish to create ed tech solutions.
Moving on, we offer a brief introduction to a new technological framework that has hitherto been overlooked in this publication: the Internet of Things. Guest writer Christian Golden, PhD, outlines the potential benefits and challenges of bringing the IoT into our classrooms, schools, and universities; and, though the overview is brief, we hope it will stimulate further discussion and examination of the implications of the IoT for educational institutions.
Finally, we’re delighted to be able to announce that four wonderful, expert speakers will be driving our agenda in San Francisco this year. Representing the University of Cambridge, Harvard University’s Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Google, and (formerly) the UCL Institute of Education respectively, we’re extremely excited about the insights they’re going to offer this year’s delegates. You can meet them here…
We will be confirming more speakers and topics over the coming month, but, to secure your place alongside some of the world’s foremost experts, representing some of the world’s leading research universities, most innovative startups, and most recognisable technology companies, secure your Early Bird place today!
Our final note is respecting this year’s Awards, where we offer a final reminder that the deadline for submission is not tomorrow (or today, depending on from where in the world you read this), but the 31st August 2018.
Never stop innovating!
Regards,
Jack Moran
Editor & Program Manager
Reimagine Education
Judging
Our call for expert volunteer judges to help evaluate this year’s entrants to Reimagine Education will continue until the 31st August 2018. Want to:
- Gain extensive insight into improvements in education across the world?
- Receive global visibility for your role on our judging panel?
- Acquire accredited acknowledgement for your contribution?
- Receive a discounted ticket to this year’s Reimagine Education conference?
Then we invite you to join the judges! Our call for judges will remain open until the 31st August, and all those who profess expertise in education are invited to apply for consideration. Submit your application here.
Introductory Papers
Those who have only just been introduced to Reimagine Education are offered five introductory papers on the key focuses of Reimagine Education, which outline some basic information about each focus, and introduce some of the debates that we take up at the event.
We’ve written on:
Technology and pedagogical innovation
The Global Skills Gap: Student Misperceptions and Institutional Solutions
