SXSWInteractive 2015!

Mar 17, 2015
Next up on my Austin agenda is SXSWInteractive – from March 13-17, 2015. The annual SXSWInteractive Festival is an incubator of cutting-edge technologies and digital creativity, featuring the best new websites, video games, and startup ideas the world has to offer. SXSWInteractive has definitely become the place to preview the technology ideas of the future and the people who invent and execute them well. This year, there was a special section on gaming and learning. I joined Erik Martin (U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Technology), Gary Hoover (CEO, Bigwig Games) and Lonny Stern (Senior Director of Business Development, Skillpoint Alliance) on stage for the panel, "Gaming in Education, Education in Gaming" to talk about the effects of adding game design and coding to schools' curriculum, and how it can be integrated into traditional and nontraditional educational settings. It was a great talk with fantastic feedback. My SXSWInteractive experience was enhanced especially by my colleagues at the M.I.T. Media Lab Lounge, featuring this year the theme of Synthetic Biology. Here are some tweets from my SXSWInteractive experience. Can't wait for next year.

@Idit #gaming in #education panel @SXSW2015 #SXSWGaming @globaloria pic.twitter.com/8gawCS9Xyj

— EdTech Action (@edtechaction) March 15, 2015

It's time: Moving from #SxSWedu to #SxSWinteractive & #SxSWfilm it's getting more sunny & fun by the minute! pic.twitter.com/gPs4U7sZlZ

— Idit Harel (@Idit) March 12, 2015

How to rock #SXSW in 4 hrs? #timferriss has some practical ideas that make me LOL @SXSWInteractive pic.twitter.com/xLvgb4i1C6

— Idit Harel (@Idit) March 13, 2015

Theme of @medialab #MLSXSW is SynBio & Advancement of biotech-edu Follow @ML_Livetweets & @Joi Cc: @MIT_alumni @MIT pic.twitter.com/w995g5OZfW

— Idit Harel (@Idit) March 13, 2015

Can u imagine adaptive #gaming as medicine for ADHD or Depression?! Impressed by @AkiliLabs @medialab Lounge #MLSXSW pic.twitter.com/O1jGpbrzqI

— Idit Harel (@Idit) March 13, 2015

I got musically-synced by #synchme skin+heart+brain http://t.co/q5lPAEoVdP @medialab BioSynchLounge cc: #mlsxsw #SXSW pic.twitter.com/BEtfecWfId

— Idit Harel (@Idit) March 13, 2015

How stuff was made past & nature inspire artists/architects as they invent the future -- @curiousoctopus of MOMA #SXSWInteractive #MLSXSW

— Idit Harel (@Idit) March 13, 2015

.@medialab's material- ecologist NeriOxman's silkworms installations r powerful examples of @curiousoctopus theory of design #sxsw #MLSXSW

— Idit Harel (@Idit) March 13, 2015

I started playing #microculture game with @MicroCultSkin of #MLSXSW a new fun by @colleenmacklin - join @medialab lounge at moonshine #SXSW

— Idit Harel (@Idit) March 13, 2015

Officially Microcultured! Playing @MicroCultSkin w @colleenmacklin @medialab lounge #SXSW #MLSXSW pic.twitter.com/O9vIiGMHNa

— Idit Harel (@Idit) March 13, 2015

“@slipton: Got my flora card from @Idit @MicroCultSkin” #microculture Cc: @colleenmacklin it's spreadin! #MLSXSW

— Idit Harel (@Idit) March 13, 2015

Coding is the new literacy! @globaloria @Idit @Skillpoint @BigwigGames @enspire @sxsw #gaminged #SXSWGaming pic.twitter.com/ArhazKzApD

— EdTech Action (@edtechaction) March 15, 2015

Wow thanks! “@The_Shauna_Show: @Idit #WomeninSTEM #GamingEd #deafed #SXSW2015 pic.twitter.com/J8bmSIMtkN”

— Idit Harel (@Idit) March 15, 2015

Awesome #SXSWFilm #BikesVsCars premier global crisis cities transport battle http://t.co/TzAEs6VwjL pic by @brondmo pic.twitter.com/pr6MZkwaqq

— Idit Harel (@Idit) March 16, 2015

Entrepreneurs w #TQ (TechIQ) come serve government as "second act" for tech leaders @smithmegan @USCTO #SXSW #MLSXSW pic.twitter.com/YHOc0UinQp

— Idit Harel (@Idit) March 16, 2015

Important chat @WalterIsaacson & @USCTO 2connect citizens fr ALL zipcodes to digital revolution #SXSW @AspenInstitute pic.twitter.com/RhEcgRjKt4

— Idit Harel (@Idit) March 16, 2015

"We need to make more women comfortable w math &engineering" says @WalterIsaacson -- who's new CS hero (finally) is AdaLovelace #SXSW @USCTO

— Idit Harel (@Idit) March 16, 2015

#askwalter Can innovation be learned/taught? What are we waiting for? Question for all three @USCTO @WalterIsaacson @ericschmidt

— Idit Harel (@Idit) March 16, 2015

"If I had to change one thing? - it's #UniversalBroadband" Says @ericschmidt "it's foundation for everything" #SXSW pic.twitter.com/cTEsCjZtgH

— Idit Harel (@Idit) March 16, 2015

#askwalter It can happen! We know to educate-to-innovate! 1 Dictator-for-a-day can mandate ALL kids study how2 innovate+imagine+invent+code

— Idit Harel (@Idit) March 16, 2015

I'm psyched: I've talked w @WalterIsaacson on #gamemakingisnewliteracy #codingisthenewwriting for a decade. He arrived! #SXSW #innovation

— Idit Harel (@Idit) March 16, 2015

Smith-vs-Schmidt on "How Innovation Happens" - No Doubt @smithmegan Rocked the panel. #SXSW @USCTO @WalterIsaacson pic.twitter.com/zLXDJ3uQ6Q

— Idit Harel (@Idit) March 16, 2015

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