If We Started from Scratch What Would Schools Look Like?

Since schools are such established institutions what's the best way to develop them? Can tech help us in bringing more immersive ways of learning? What's the role of teachers in all of this? Saku Tuominen is the Founder of HundrEd, an organization that tracks the best K12 innovations globally and then shares them. Michael Brodekar is the Co-founder of Labster, which provides laboratory simulations for improved STEM learning. Esther Wojcicki is a world-renowned educator, award-winning journalist, edtech pioneer and currently the Chief Learning Officer at Planet3. The talk is hosted by Marta Sjögren, Principal at Northzone. -- In 2017, Slush brought together 20,000 attendees, including 2,600 startups, 1,600 investors and 600 journalists from over 130 countries. The cold and dark Helsinki welcomed these tech-heads to a week long celebration (27.11.-1.12.), including Slush Music, new Slush Y verticals, and hundreds of side-events and activities around the city. Slush Week 2018 takes place on ???. Slush 2017 in pictures: https://www.flickr.com/photos/slushmedia/albums Website: http://www.slush.org Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/slushHQ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/slushHQ Instagram: http://instagram.com/SlushHQ Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/company/slush Slush Music: http://music.slush.org Slush Tokyo: http://tokyo.slush.org Slush Shanghai: http://shanghai.slush.org Slush Singapore: http://singapore.slush.org Intro videos by: VAU (http://vau.company) VELI.fx / Veli Creative (http://velicreative.fi) Slush is a non-profit event organized by a community of entrepreneurs, investors, students and festival organizers. Slush has grown from a 300-person event to become the leading event of its kind in the world. The philosophy behind it has remained the same: to help the next generation of great, world-conquering companies forward.