Using the Workplace as a Learning Environment: Business and Academia Collaborating on Assignments
This workshop introduces participants to project-based learning (PBL) and is designed for business people who are interested in collaborating with professors to design effective assignments and professors who want to use new, proven methods to decrease the divide between academia and the workplace. In this workshop, participants will learn to create alliances with corporations and non-profits, focus on effective teamwork, develop authentic assignments, and learn strategies to keep projects on track.
Dr. Deborah S. Bosley, Associate Professor of English, UNC Charlotte
21st Century Presentation Genres: Pecha Kucha and Ignite
Pecha Kucha and Ignite are gatherings held worldwide where artists, designers, and creative professionals of all stripes present ideas, explore new concepts and share their work via short (5-7min) oral presentations that are punctuated by 20 slides cycling at regular (15-20 second) intervals. This panel discussion will feature organizers and presenters at Ignite NYC and PKNYC and will address the history of this emerging presentation genre and its growing popularity in educational and business settings. Panelists will consider whether this new, increasingly popular presentation format is merely stylish trend or suggests a significant, lasting shift in thinking about what an oral presentation is and what it is meant to do.
Tikva Morowati, Founder and Director Ignite NYC
Martha Denton, Slidemeister, Ignite NYC; Freelance Visual Communication Specialist
Manuel Toscano, Co-curator Pecha Kucha New York; Principal, Zago; Principal, Helsinki Group
The Employee of The Future
A panel of HR, Recruiting, and college career development professionals discuss what business is searching for when students interview. How will the workforce look and change in the next few years? How will the impact of emerging technologies affect traditional standards of behavior and performance? What can education do to prepare students for becoming valuable assets to their employers?
Ellen Cahill, Co-Founder, Cahill Associates
Diana Cruz Solash, Director of Human Resources, Ernst & Young
Jenny Viteritti, Vice President, JP Morgan Chase
Dr. Patricia Imbimbo, Director, Starr Career Development Center, Baruch College
Find a Voice and Build Community: Social Media in Business and Education
In the past few years, social media have virtually transformed how many of us communicate, teach, learn and do business. We now face a host of new practical concerns: How do we navigate the inevitable conflicts between the way your organization, institution, or profession has “always done things” and the emerging norms and possibilities of social media? How do we balance authenticity and humanness with being the electronic “voice” of a class, school or company? This panel discussion will explore these and other practical questions around realizing the tremendous potential of social media in instructional and business contexts.
Scott Kirsner (@scottkirsner), Contributing writer, Wired, Fast Company; author, Fans, Friends & Followers
Ryan Osborne (@rozzy), Director of Social Media, NBC News
Kristin Taylor (@kthread), founder, Galvanize.us mobile application; editor of new food magazine Culinaesthete.
Dr. Kathleen Fitzpatrick (@kfitz), Professor of Media Studies, Pomona College; author, Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy (NYU Press, forthcoming)
The Mystery of Inner Motivation: How to Use the World Wide Web to Think New Thoughts
In “Is Google Making Us Stupid,” Nicholas Carr laid out the clear dangers the World Wide Web poses to democratic society. In this hands-on workshop that counters Carr’s dark assessment, Professors Miller and Hammond will lead participants in exploring how the World Wide Web might be used to cultivate curiosity and creativity in both the classroom and the workplace. For this to happen, however, teachers and employers need to confront the mystery of inner motivation which, as Daniel Pink argues in Drive, is the source for innovation in the kind of “artistic, empathic, nonroutine work” that is not susceptible to outsourcing.
Dr. Richard E. Miller, Executive Director of the Plangere Writing Center, Rutgers University; author, Writing at the End of the World and As If Learning Mattered: Reforming Higher Education; his current work may be found at text2cloud.com.
Dr. Paul D. Hammond, Director of Digital Initiatives in the Rutgers University Writing Program.
