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“What organizers like to call ‘society’s true rock stars: educators’ — and an ever-expanding orbit of tech innovators, researchers, entrepreneurs, filmmakers and media types focused on teaching and learning — are again set to converge next week in Austin for the sixth annual South By Southwest Education (SXSWedu) Conference & Festival.
It’s a dizzying and deep four-day gathering that kicks off Monday with a keynote address by famed autistic author and animal science professor Temple Grandin on the different ways people think when solving problems and culminates Thursday with a presentation by LRNG CEO Connie Yowell on the $25 million effort (thank you MacArthur Foundation) to close the opportunity gap for young people by creating a connected, digital catalog of in-school and out-of-school learning and career experiences. LRNG was tapped just last week to be part of the White House’s summer jobs initiative.”