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Sunday
4:00pm-5:45pm Opening Session: Lighting Sparks for Co-Creation (Miramar)
6:00pm-6:30pm Reception (Ballroom Foyer)
6:30pm-8:30pm Dinner (Ballroom)

  • Welcome: Dr. Lisa Petrides, President, ISKME
  • Opening remarks (video): Arne Duncan, United States Secretary of Education
  • Keynote: Brewster Kahle, Founder, Internet Archive, Universal Access to All Knowledge
  • Performance: Central Moves, Prospection
8:30pm until late Media Lounge open (Pacifica)


Monday
8:00am-9:00am Breakfast buffet (Miramar)
9:00am-9:50am Keynote (Ballroom)

  • Alan Kay, Big Ideas Are Sometimes Powerful Ideas
10:00am-11:00am Rapid Fire #1: Identifying Opportunities (Ballroom)

  • Dennis Bartels, Executive Director, Exploratorium, The Other 115,632 Hours: What If Informal Learning Counted Too?
  • Erin O'Connell, Associate Professor and Undergraduate Director of Languages and Literature, University of Utah, Homeric Hip-Hop: The Ancient is Fresh
  • Marco Torres, Social Studies Teacher, San Fernando High School,
    Identifying Opportunities to Capture: Lessons on Observing, Engaging, and Involving Students
  • Cesar Gomez & Ashly Nand, Roadtrip Nation, South San Francisco High School, From the Back of the Class: What We See From Here
11:00am-11:15am Framing Action Collab #1: Identifying Opportunities (Ballroom)

  • Action Collab Leader, Chris Miller, Co-founder, LifePlays Improv
11:15am-12:45pm Action Collab #1: Identifying Opportunities (9 locations, in facilitated small-group cohorts)

Changing perspectives helps to see familiar problems in a new light and opens opportunities for novel solutions
12:45pm-1:35pm Lunch (Ballroom)

  • Keynote: Yvonne Chan, Principal, Vaughn Next Century Learning Center and Member of CA State Board of Education, Trusting You Have the Knowledge-Base to Create Something New
1:45pm-2:45pm Rapid Fire #2: Design (Ballroom)

  • Gever Tulley, Founder, Tinkering School, Turning Curriculum Design On Its Head: Engage First Then Look for Learning Within
  • Garry Gaber, President, Chief Creative officer Escape Hatch Entertainment, Immune Attack: A User-Centric Approach to Game Design
  • Tony Jackson, Vice President for Education, Asia Society, Matching Design to Outcomes: Teaching Global Competencies in a Changing World
  • Myra Strober, Professor, Stanford University, Interdisciplinarity: The Four-Wheel Drive Approach to Complex Problems
2:45pm-3:00pm Framing Action Collab #2: Design (Ballroom)

  • Action Collab Leader, Erin O’Connell, Associate Professor and Undergraduate Director of Languages and Literature, University of Utah
3:00pm-4:15pm Action Collab #2: Design (9 locations, in facilitated small-group cohorts)

Designing solutions, not just solving problems, invites collaboration and cross-disciplinary partnerships
4:15pm-6:30pm Suggested Activities:

  • Tidepool Walk (the beach!)
  • Open Space Collab (Miramar 1)
  • Make a Video in the Media Lounge (Pacifica)
  • Roadtrip Nation Interviews (Roadtrip RV)
6:30pm-8:00pm Dinner buffet (Ballroom)

  • On-Key-Note: Sandy Shugart, President, Valencia Community College, Can Our Institutions Accommodate To People Who Don’t Believe In Them
8:00pm until late Media Lounge open (Pacifica)
8:30pm Tweetup (tba)


Tuesday
8:00am-9:00am Breakfast buffet (Miramar)
9:00am-9:50am Keynote (Ballroom)

  • Mae Jemison, astronaut, physician, engineer
10:00am-11:00am Rapid Fire #3 Prototype (Ballroom)

  • Mike Marriner, Co-Founder, Roadtrip Nation, On the Road to Making Education Relevant to the Real World
  • Joel Westheimer, Professor, University of Ottawa, All Children Left Thinking: What Everyone Needs to Know In a Democratic Society
  • Matt Fritzinger, Founder, NorCal High School Mountain Bike Racing League, I Want To Race My Bicycle: Trailblazing Into the Mainstream of High School Culture
  • Neeru Paharia, Founder, Peer to Peer University, Hacking the Social and Structural Elements of a Free Education
11:00am-11:15am Framing Action Collab #3: Prototype (Ballroom)

  • Action Collab Leader, Dale Dougherty, Founding Editor and Publisher, Make Magazine and Creator, Maker Faire
11:15am-12:45pm Action Collab #3: Prototype (9 locations, in facilitated small-group cohorts)

Test out your ideas and embrace failure as indicator of open thinking toward plausible solutions
12:45pm-1:30pm Lunch buffet (Miramar)
1:45pm-2:45pm Rapid Fire #4: Scale and Spread (Ballroom)

  • Erik Duval, Professor of Computer Science, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Learning From Music: Abundance As a Platform For Innovation
  • David Calkins, Founder, ROBOlympics, Does Your Robot Play Well With Others?
  • Deborah Quazzo, Co-Founder, NeXtAdvisors, LLC, A Double Espresso for Education
  • Hal Plotkin, Senior Policy Adviser, Office of the Under Secretary, United States Department of Education, A New Model for Higher Education: Can We Meet the Demand Before They Vote With Their Feet
2:45pm-3:00pm Framing Action Collab #4: Scale and Spread (Ballroom)

  • Action Collab Leader, Eda Roth, Actress and Professional Communications Consultant
3:00pm-4:15pm Action Collab #4: Scale and Spread (9 locations, in facilitated small-group cohorts)

Share your big idea with the group through storytelling, video, or other type of presentation
4:15pm-6:30pm Suggested Activities:

  • Tidepool Walk (the beach!)
  • Open Space Collab (Miramar 1)
  • Make a Video in the Media Lounge (Pacifica)
  • Roadtrip Nation Interviews (Roadtrip RV)
6:30pm-9:00pm Dinner (Ballroom)

  • Final stories and presentations by Action Collab Cohorts
  • Performance (followed by Q & A): Central Moves, Retrospection (Ballroom)
9:00pm until late Media Lounge open (Pacifica)


Wednesday
9:00am-10:00am Awards Breakfast (Ballroom)
10:00am-12:00pm Designing Incentives for Education: The New Frontier (Ballroom)
12:30pm-1:30pm Lunch (Ballroom)

  • Keynote: Kevin Johnson, Mayor of Sacramento, Transforming Big Ideas into Bold Action
1:30pm-2:00pm Closing (Ballroom)
 

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