{"id":91063,"date":"2024-03-19T12:47:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T16:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=91063"},"modified":"2024-03-19T12:47:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T16:47:03","slug":"the-edtech-insiders-rundown-of-sxsw-edu-2024-kornell-sarlin-morin-other-k12-related-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2024\/03\/19\/the-edtech-insiders-rundown-of-sxsw-edu-2024-kornell-sarlin-morin-other-k12-related-items\/","title":{"rendered":"The Edtech Insiders Rundown of SXSW EDU 2024 [Kornell, Sarlin, &#038; Morin] + other K12-related items"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/edtechinsiders.substack.com\/p\/the-edtech-insiders-rundown-of-sxsw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Edtech Insiders Rundown of SXSW EDU 2024<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from edtechinsiders.substack.com by Ben Kornell, Alex Sarlin, and Sarah Morin<br \/>\n<em>And more on our ASU + GSV Happy Hour, GenAI in edtech market valuations, and interviews from The Common Sense Summit.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Theme 1: The Kids Are Not Alright<br \/>\n<\/strong>This year\u2019s SXSW EDU had something for everyone, with over a dozen \u201cProgram Tracks.\u201d However, the one theme that truly connected the entire conference was mental health.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">36 sessions were\u00a0specifically\u00a0tagged with mental health and wellness, but in sessions on topics ranging from literacy to edtech to civic engagement, presenters continued to come back again and again to the mental health crisis amongst teens and young adults.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong>Theme 2: Aye AI, Captain<br \/>\n<\/strong>Consistent with past conferences, this year leaned in on the K12 education world. As expected, one of the hottest topics for K12 was the role of AI (or lack thereof) in schools. Key takeaways included&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettingsmart.com\/2024\/03\/12\/ai-literacy-a-new-graduation-requirement-and-civic-imperative\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>AI Literacy: A New Graduation Requirement and Civic Imperative<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from gettingsmart.com by Tom Vander Ark and Mason Pashia<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Points<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There is still time to ensure that all of your students graduate with an understanding of how AI works, why it is important and how to best use it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>What would it look like to make a commitment that come graduation every senior will have at least basic AI literacy? This includes an appreciation of AI as a creation engine and learning partner but also an understanding of the risks of deepfakes and biased curation. We\u2019re entering a time where to quote\u00a0Ethan Mollick\u00a0\u201cYou can\u2019t trust anything you read or see ever again.\u201d Whether formal or informal, it\u2019s time to start building AI literacy.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/yassprize\/2024\/03\/12\/new-alabama-education-law-represents-small-but-significant-advance\/?sh=34c742b64c54\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>New Alabama Education Law Represents Small But Significant Advance<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&#8212; from forbes.com by Jeanne Allen<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/yassprize\/2024\/03\/12\/new-alabama-education-law-represents-small-but-significant-advance\/?sh=34c742b64c54\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/imageio.forbes.com\/specials-images\/imageserve\/65f0e4797b1f7a736bd18c96\/Students-at-Valiant-Cross-Academy-respond-to-calls-for-them-to-lead-\/960x0.jpg?format=jpg&amp;width=1440\" alt=\"Valiant Cross Academy raises the bar for young men. A young man seated in a pew is raising his hand.\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">More than 50 years later, across the street from the church and concerned with declining education and the pace of social change, brothers Anthony and Fred Brock founded Valiant Cross Academy, an all-male academy aimed at \u201chelping boys of color become men of valor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Valiant Cross embodies King\u2019s hopes, pursuing the dream that its students will be judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin, and working to ensure that they are well prepared for productive lives filled with accomplishment and purpose.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cWe\u2019re out to prove that it\u2019s an opportunity gap, not an achievement gap\u201d says head of school Anthony Brock. And they have. In 2022, 100 percent of Valiant seniors graduated from the academy, pursuing post-graduate options, enrolling in either four- or two-year college, or established career-training programs.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Edtech Insiders Rundown of SXSW EDU 2024 &#8212; from edtechinsiders.substack.com by Ben Kornell, Alex Sarlin, and Sarah Morin And more on our ASU + GSV Happy Hour, GenAI in edtech market valuations, and interviews from The Common Sense Summit. Theme 1: The Kids Are Not Alright This year\u2019s SXSW EDU had something for everyone, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[356,851,324,343,32,210,425,359,46,7,838,256,480,293,89,206,321,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-bias-diversity-equity-inclusion-dei","category-curriculum","category-education","category-education-technology","category-emerging-technologies","category-faith","category-health","category-k-12-related","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-experience-design","category-music","category-society","category-sociology","category-teachers","category-trends","category-united-states","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91063"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91090,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91063\/revisions\/91090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}