SXSW EDU 2020

Talking Tech: The Future of Language Learning

Description:

Access to more than one language allows us to interrogate fixed, singular understandings therein. It opens us to meanings, values, and ways of being. It gives us choices with consequences beyond where we can travel or what careers we can pursue. In a moment beset by fixed notions of the world — often heartbreaking consequences — digital language learning offers something beyond translation. It offers us a means of intervention, access to more than one possible world and to ourselves.


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Takeaways

  1. To prove why translation is not enough
  2. Technology will improve language learning by giving more people access and enhancing one's language learning journey
  3. Multilingualism will improve our own lives, the lives of others, and the world as a whole

Speakers

  • Scott Chacon, CEO and founder, Chatterbug
  • Mike Shangkuan, CEO, Lingoda
  • Jennifer Dorman, Instructional Designer, Babbel

Organizer

Megan Ponce De Leon, Community Manager, chatterbug


Meta Information:

  • Tags: edtech, langauge learning
  • Event: EDU
  • Format: Panel
  • Track: Emerging Tech & Development
  • Session Focus Area
  • Level: Deep Understanding


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