Presentations

While most of us prefer to learn in person, this workshop will highlight the many affordances of going remote. From breaking free of scheduling constraints and giving students more agency over their learning, to creating a sense of psychological safety with learners from different parts of the world, we will highlight what we have learned over the last three years by moving the Innovation Academy from the classrooms at the American School in Lima, Peru to Zoom with schools around the world.

In Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education, Justin Reich delivers a sobering report card on the latest supposedly transformative educational technologies.

Harnessing the power of Bitmojis to promote creativity and engage learners in and out of the languages classroom

Research has proven that games, and more importantly, Video-Games, are a great medium to inspire empathy in the players. In this presentation, the participants will get a playlist of empathic video-games they can safely promote to students, and they will learn ways to create an empathic game themselves.

We are Renaissance College Hong Kong's Research Institute, the first of our kind in the Asia-Pacific Region. We are in the middle of conducting a self-directed research project on how streamed academic classes impact student engagement.

Being a multi-cultural school, the staff at Curro Hazeldean High had to navigate the turmoil diversity waters of 2020, while ensuring that the school remained a safe, diverse haven for its pupils.

This session explores current findings in educational neuroscience and discusses how these findings translate into meaningful practice in "real-world" classrooms.

This session is a virtual hands on session where participants will be shown the basics of how to create a model in Tinkercad. The models can then be exported to a 3D printer or as a VR or AR element.

For learning sustainability there is a fundamental urgency required in changing to the education system as it stands now. ESBC in Berlin shows the impact of a new system based on the principles of humanity and solidarity and following a simple premise: radically trusting in the potential of students and putting them in charge.