[Air-L] Sasha Barab, Learning Scientist - ELDc19 Keynote Speaker

[AJ Kelton]

Emerging Learning Design is excited to announce that internationally
recognized learning scientist Sasha Barab will be the Keynote Speaker for
the 9th Annual Emerging Learning Design Conference, May 30th and 31st at
Montclair State University in New Jersey.

Dr. Barab will be giving a talk on "Cultivating Connected Growth and Life
Change: From Immersive Worlds to Empowered Ecosystems."

If you have not already submitted, Emerging Learning Design invites you to
submit a proposal for ELDc19: Generation Emerging.  http://bit.ly/2y6asNr  The
call for proposals closes 1/22.

Registration will open in February so you will be able to secure your spot
at the conference soon!

Through Dr. Barab’s work, you’ll reconsider the role of digital games and
innovation for helping people thrive in life. Join us as we discuss with
Dr. Barab the design boundaries from the bits and bytes of the game world
to complex real-world ecosystems with the goal of helping all learners
thrive in a complex, rapidly changing, digitally connected world.

The ELDc19 Program Committee seeks proposals for interactive presentations,
workshops, and Sparks! sessions.  Proposed sessions will be targeted to
Designers, Educators, Researchers, and Technologists.

ELDc19 seeks to grapple with the issues facing the emerging generation and
their educational journey. With a society in flux, educating students for
an unknown future presents exciting challenges. Self-driving cars,
self-replicating AI, and transhumanism will all be common rather than
merely on the pages of a science fiction novel in the not so distant
future. This future will augment the potential for learner experience
design. ELD invites you to engage with and reflect upon how we can best
educate the generation emerging and leverage their forward thinking ideals
to propel society forward.

The submission deadline is January 22, 2018, at 11:59 pm ET. Learn more and
submit your proposal today! http://bit.ly/2y6asNr

The ELD Annual Conference is a space designed to showcase innovation as
well as to engage in a vibrant and dynamic discourse. With passion for
social responsibility, dedication to diversity, and ambition for
engagement, this is a generation emerging.

Veronica Armour, Conference Chair
Jeff Bergin, Conference Chair
Teresa Slobuski, Program Chair
Bryan Alexander, Program Chair


Sasha Barab has researched, designed, and published extensively on the
challenges and opportunities of using innovation for impact, with a
particular focus on the power of games. He is a professor in the School for
the Future of Innovation in Society and the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers
College, where he also serves as the Executive Director of the Center for
Games and Impact. His research has resulted in numerous grants, over 100
published manuscripts, and multiple game-based innovations that have been
engaged by over 200,000 players to support learning and transformation.

His current work extends the design boundaries from the bits and bytes of
the game world to complex real-world ecosystems with the goal of helping
all learners thrive in a complex, rapidly changing, digitally connected
world. One recent project, My Lifelabs, is based on an invite, enable, and
release learning methodology and focused on cultivating growth and impact
journeys so that more people can realize their potential. Across all work
is a sensitivity to factors such as ecosystem integration, stakeholder
alignment, enacted agency, and achieving sustainable and scalable outcomes.

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*AJ Kelton, PhD*
Director, Center for the Digital Humanities
College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Montclair State University

Schmitt Hall 135
973.655.5507
keltona at mail.montclair.edu
Need to meet with me? Book a time at https://keltona.youcanbook.me/

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