[ONLINE] - LSX Summit 2022

How do we give children opportunities for active learning, cultural exchange, and interactions sparked by curiosity and questions, especially as media and technology become even more embedded in their lives? Fascinating answers are emerging from the Learning Sciences Exchange, a groundbreaking fellowship program testing a new model for collaboration and transformation. LSX, as we call it, brings together small teams of talented people—unknown to each other, from different parts of the world and in different sectors—who collaborate on new approaches to learning while also learning from each other at the same time.  

Join us on August 10th to hear the stories of these LSX Fellows who hail from the fields of entertainment, journalism, social entrepreneurship, education policy, and the science of learning. After working together for two years, remotely across multiple time zones and only once in-person, these LSX fellows will share their ideas and reflect on what it takes to break out of one’s bubble. We welcome discussion of your reflections too on how LSX can grow and spread this model of cross-sector collaboration.

This biannual event features keynote remarks from NPR education reporter Anya Kamenetz (author of The Stolen Year) and our panel moderators Brenda Jones-Harden of the University of Maryland, Marisa Gerstein Pineau of the FrameWorks Institute, and Jessica Sager of All Our Kin. It culminates with the announcement of our next cohort of LSX fellows: 15 mid-career innovators from seven countries now part of an ever-growing network, rippling outward yet also bringing change and innovation back to their own communities, all based on the science of how children learn best. Join us on Twitter at #LSX2022 and follow @lsxfellowship.

Visit the Summit website for additional information. Many thanks to the Jacobs Foundation for its partnership and support.

Schedule

12 pm EDT - Welcome and Introductions

Paul E. Butler, President and Chief Transformation Officer of New America
Lisa Guernsey, Senior Fellow and Strategic Advisor at New America and Co-Founder of the Learning Sciences Exchange
Urs Arnold, Chief Operating Officer, Jacobs Foundation

12:08 pm EDT - The LSX Model

12:13 pm EDT - Translating Science, Transforming Learning

Roberta Golinkoff, Chair and Professor of Education in the School of Education at the University of Delaware
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Faculty Fellow in the Department of Psychology at Temple University and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution

12:18 pm EDT - LSX Fellows' Groups: Stories, Insights, and Prototypes

Introductions by Lisa Guernsey, Senior Fellow and Strategic Advisor at New America and Co-Founder of the Learning Sciences Exchange

12:20 pm EDT - Group 1: Playful Learning Challenge

Puja Balachander, Director of Product, Think of Us
Jack Graham, Climate Change & Nature Correspondent, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Elizabeth Gunderson, Developmental Psychologist and Associate Professor, Temple University
Jeff Kleeman, Film Producer and President of Ellen DeGeneres’s company, A Very Good Production
Cathy Mitchell, Head of Market Insight and Analysis at Heriot-Watt University
Moderator: Brenda Jones-Harden, Professor for Children and Families, University of Maryland School of Social Work, and board president for ZERO TO THREE

12:35 pm EDT - Group 2: Tech Together

Brenda Bushouse, Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Judith Danovitch, Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences, University of Louisville
Tammy Kwan, Co-Founder and CEO, Cognitive ToyBox
Annie Murphy Paul, Science Writer for Hidden Brain and Author, The Extended Mind
Ariel Zekelman, Former Lead Play Designer at Osmo, now at Amazon

Moderator: Jill Shinderman, Founder of Barclay Square Books, and Director of Publishing at PJ Library

12:50 pm EDT - Group 3: Kindergrams

Lilian Anekwe, Content Curator, Emerging Topics (guidelines & policy), Meta
Emmy O’Dwyer, Founder & Principal Consultant of Advancing Communities for Equity
John Sessler, Education Consultant and Learning Experience Designer
Medha Tare, Director of Research, Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop
Moderator: Simran Mulchandani, Founder of Project Rangeet

1:05 pm EDT - Keynote | Reflections

Anya Kamenetz, Education Reporter, National Public Radio and Author, The Stolen Year: How COVID Changed Children's Lives, and Where We Go Now (Public Affairs, 2022)

1:15 pm EDT - Announcing Our New LSX Fellows: The 2022-2024 Cohort

Announced by:
Roberta Golinkoff, Chair and Professor of Education in the School of Education at the University of Delaware
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Faculty Fellow in the Department of Psychology at Temple University and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution

1:25 pm EDT - Final Q-and-A and Concluding Remarks

Cathrin Jerie, Program Manager, Jacobs Foundation
Lisa Guernsey, Senior Fellow and Strategic Advisor at New America and Co-Founder of the Learning Sciences Exchange

The Learning Sciences Exchange program has been made possible through the partnership and support of the Jacobs Foundation.