Featured Speakers
Opening Keynote:
Cultivating Curiosity and Creativity in the Age of AI
Dr. Mitch Resnick
LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research at the MIT Media Lab, founder of Scratch, author of Lifelong Kindergarten, and innovative leader of Creative Learning
About Dr. Mitch Resnick:
For more than three decades at the MIT Media Lab, Mitch Resnick has designed technologies that invite young people to create with technology rather than just consume it. Scratch, which grew out of his Lifelong Kindergarten research group at MIT, has become one of the world’s largest creative communities for young people, where millions build and share their own stories, games, and animations.
His “Four P’s” of creative learning, projects, passion, peers, and play, give educators a framework for designing experiences that keep curiosity alive well beyond kindergarten. And his argument for the age of AI is simple: as machines take on more of the routine work, creativity becomes the capacity that matters most, for students and for the people who teach them.