SXSW EDU 2024
Own Your Narrative: Transformative Student-Designed Stories
Description:
We face increasingly complicated, uncharted challenges that demand our full contributions, individually and together. Our stories activate our whole selves, making us powerful and connected. While stories get told every day, only some voices are heard. These panelists have used student-designed narratives to unleash the curiosity, passion, and voices of young people in the juvenile justice system, first-generation college students, and high school kids. They will share students’ written, spoken, sung, and filmed artifacts, approaches that enabled these, and the impact on all involved.
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Takeaways
- Engage students in actively using their observations, principles, ideas, and experiments in developing narratives for authentic audiences.
- Explore accessible tools for students to work individually and together, reflecting on what matters to discover and take charge of their narratives.
- Highlight examples of how narratives increase "self-authorship," build community, improve mental health, and contribute to a sense of purpose.
Speakers
- Ela Ben-Ur, Founder and Academic Partner, Innovators' Compass and Olin College of Engineering
- Kaylah Holland, Director of Instructional Design and Blended Learning, BreakFree Education
- Jessica Bacal, Director of Reflective & Integrative Practices; Director of the Narratives Project, Smith College
- Michael Hernandez, Teacher, Author, Consultant, Manhattan Beach Unified School District
Organizer
Ela Ben-Ur, Founder And Academic Partner, Innovators' Compass and Olin College of Engineering
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