Dear Reimaginers,

We are very excited to be able to announce the participation of two outstanding speakers for this year’s event (London, 8^th-10^th December 2019). The first is Professor Rose Luckin, who will be leading this year’s conversation about the potential of, implementation of, and misconceptions about artificial intelligence.

Professor Luckin has been developing and writing about the Learning Sciences, Educational technology and Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIEd) for over 20 years. Her research explores how to increase participation by teachers and learners in the design and use of technologies. In addition to this, she is the Director of the EDUCATE project, a six-month mentoring and consultancy program that helps EdTech startups to develop products that are effective, robust and fit for purpose. The Reimagine Education Steering Committee has been liaising with Professor Luckin for some time, and are delighted to welcome her to this year’s event.

We are equally delighted to confirm that Louise Dube, Executive Director at iCivics, will be speaking on the relationship between education, citizenship, and democracy at Reimagine. iCivics were a successful applicant in 2017, speaking at our Philadelphia event. They are an American non-profit organization providing educational online games and lesson plans to promote civics education and encourage students to become active citizens.

iCivics was founded in 2008 by retired Supreme Court of the United States Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, and have since done much to further the relationship between pedagogy and citizenship. We believe that Louise’s session is invaluable at the current moment, and are excited to engage with her on such an urgent contemporary subject. Those wishing to secure their place alongside Rose, Louise, and those behind the very finest applicants to this year’s Awards can do so today at www.Reimagine-Education.com/book-now.

There is still some time for keen speakers to submit a keynote proposal or workshop application. The call for speakers will run until 1^st September, and we will offer all speakers a response on their proposal by 15^th September.

We are also delighted to introduce two highly-valued sponsors to our audience. Ajman University and King Saud University are both striving to foster a higher standard of pedagogy in their respective nations, and in their wider region. Their sponsorship of Reimagine is testament to this commitment, and we are grateful for their support of our initiative. Ajman University have joined as Gold Sponsor, while King Saud University will be lending their support to our Global Employability Award.

If your team – or you alone – are doing work worthy of our Global Employability Award, then there is still time to enter your project for the 2019/20 Awards. The window will close on Sunday 1^st September at 23:59, and both I and my colleague Serena Ricci will be delighted to organise a call with anyone wishing to learn more about the Awards process, or to inform the colleagues of any current Reimaginers. Please do help us spread the word: we are keen to surface the very best educational initiatives, and are indebted to our community in allowing us to achieve this.

If you’d like to share your own work with a wider audience – whether that work is a new educational product, project, pedagogy, or piece of research – then we will be delighted to bring it to our community. Do email me at [email protected] with any newsletter pieces: we will be releasing bimonthly issues of the newsletter between now and Reimagine 2019.

Otherwise – never stop innovating! We have been extremely impressed by the standard of the hundreds of applications we have received thus far, and can’t wait to see what else is being done to improve teaching and learning around the world.

Anyone who wishes to submit an article on their work, research, product, or paper for our newsletter is, as ever, welcome to contact [email protected] with an 100-word summary of their proposed topic. Until then – keep innovating!

Regards,

Jack Moran
Editor
Reimagine Education