PUBLIC EVENTS

September 29
Opening Ceremony, Keynote & Benchmark Plenary Session
KEYNOTE: Brandon Busteed, Executive Director, Gallup Education

PREMIERE OF LEARNING 2030 BENCHMARK VIDEOS

PLENARY: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
Panelists: Graham Brown-Martin, Guilherme Cintra, Penny Milton, Susan Opok; Michael Brooks (moderator)

This multidisciplinary panel will draw from the themes explored in the Benchmark videos to explore the opportunities and challenges that lay ahead when we envision high school education in 2030. Do we reform, redesign or reinvent? What are the critical questions that we need to be asking?

Plenary 1: Smart Kids are Doing It For Themselves
Panelists: Sam Levin, Chris Olah, Noor Siddiqui, Kendall White; Michael Brooks (moderator)

A discussion between students who dared to strive for better and hacked their education to get there. They talk about their motivations, experiences, the reaction of those around them and the difference it has (or perhaps hasn’t) made to their lives.

TVO’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin – Disengaged & Excluded
The Agenda with Steve Paikin is TVO’s flagship current affairs program and the gold standard for in-depth analysis and thoughtful debate on television. Over the past year, TVO on the Road: Learning 2030 has travelled across Ontario to hear from experts, educators and citizens about the impact of technology on how we learn and what the future of education will look like. The Agenda continues to explore the future of education at Equinox Summit: Learning 2030 with multiplatform resources and an extensive online hub of engaging content at tvo.org/learning2030 that includes live-streaming and web-exclusive videos, guest blogs and articles.

This episode of The Agenda will look at who the students are who get the least out of the existing educational system, and in what ways a technologically driven, radical reform of the system could change that.

OCT 01
Plenary 2: You Can’t Get There From Here
Panelists: Jennifer Corriero (Co-founder of TakingITGlobal), Erin Millar (journalist), Suneet Tuli (CEO of Datawind) ; Michael Brooks (moderator)

A no-holds-barred examination of the end-goals of education. Higher education establishments and changing industry requirements (especially new industries) are moving the goalposts for the outcomes of K-12 education. Is the goal to create people who will do good and make the world a better place?

OCT
01
TVO’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin – Learning Without Teachers
The Agenda with Steve Paikin is TVO’s flagship current affairs program and the gold standard for in-depth analysis and thoughtful debate on Canadian television. Over the past year, TVO on the Road: Learning 2030 has travelled across Ontario to hear from experts, educators and citizens about the impact of technology on how we learn and what the future of education will look like. The Agenda continues to explore the future of education at Equinox Summit: Learning 2030 with multiplatform resources and an extensive online hub of engaging content at tvo.org/learning2030 that includes live-streaming and web-exclusive videos, guest blogs and articles.

This episode of The Agenda will examine the question of whether internet creates conditions which will allow for much more of learning to take place outside of traditional classrooms.

Plenary 3: The Best of Times, The Worst of Times
Panelists: Greg Butler, Jennifer Groff, Kaisa Kuoppala, Adrian Lim; Michael Brooks (moderator)

A humorous look at worst and best practices. We’ll start with anecdotes of bad experiences with curriculum, teaching and learning practices, then move on to some of the best solutions ever seen. Remember, failure is not an obstacle but an open door to better practice.

TVO’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin – Scientific Literacy for All
The Agenda with Steve Paikin is TVO’s flagship current affairs program and the gold standard for in-depth analysis and thoughtful debate on Canadian television. Over the past year, TVO on the Road: Learning 2030 has travelled across Ontario to hear from experts, educators and citizens about the impact of technology on how we learn and what the future of education will look like. The Agenda continues to explore the future of education at Equinox Summit: Learning 2030 with multiplatform resources and an extensive online hub of engaging content at tvo.org/learning2030 that includes live-streaming and web-exclusive videos, guest blogs and articles.

This episode of The Agenda will examine how to teach science in a way that will allow most students to be engaged by it without the fear of failure.

This episode of The Agenda will feature a panel discussion revealing insights around the WGSI communiqué.

TVO’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin – Screens Instead of Books
The Agenda with Steve Paikin is TVO’s flagship current affairs program and the gold standard for in-depth analysis and thoughtful debate on television. Over the past year, TVO on the Road: Learning 2030 has travelled across Ontario to hear from experts, educators and citizens about the impact of technology on how we learn and what the future of education will look like. The Agenda continues to explore the future of education at Equinox Summit: Learning 2030 with multiplatform resources and an extensive online hub of engaging content at tvo.org/learning2030 that includes live-streaming and web-exclusive videos, guest blogs and articles.

This episode of The Agenda will examine how our ideas about knowledge and learning will change when our classrooms switch from books to screens.