SXSWedu

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LaunchEdu Highlights Education Tech Innovators

The inaugural SXSWedu LaunchEdu spins off of SXSWi’s Accelerator to highlight the best of educational technology and innovation. [View the story “LaunchEdu Highlights Education Tech Innovators” on Storify]

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John Boyer

John Boyer has a unique message: gigantic classes can build an environment with tremendous sense of communities and connection, engage students, and turn them into excited, lifelong learners. For three years, he’s been experimenting and perfecting the process. See preview here He has help with that, including one specialist in instructional technology, Katie Pritchard, and […]

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Google's Jaime Casap

First generation American success story Jaime Casap emigrated to the U.S. from Argentina as a child of a single mother, and grew up in Hell’s Kitchen when the name still fit the conditions. He knows the odds he overcame to achieve that success and become a vice-president at Google. Education was the key. “Education can […]

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Opening the 2012 SXSWedu

SXSWedu 2012 got off to a running start today with its opening session, “On the Horizon: Harnessing Emerging Technologies in Education.” Symbolically, technology was used to provide three different educational conferences in different locations in Austin and Washington, D.C. with a video link so that keynote presenters at each of the conferences could speak to […]

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Game designer Jane McGonigal

Last year another part of the whole South by Southwest experience was initiated, SXSWedu.  While it shares the South By name and includes some of those involved in its older cousin, SXSWedu is considered a separate conference. This year’s convention will be March 6 – 8 at the Downtown Hilton in Austin. Highlights include a roster […]