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Get ready for the 2024 Convening! We are so excited for our live keynote, Ruha Benjamin, author of the award-winning book Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code. Her work investigates the social dimensions of science, medicine, and technology with a focus on the relationship between innovation and inequity, health and justice, knowledge and power. Here's a preview of her talk: Educators as Imagination Incubators: Possibilities and Practices Toward Liberatory Education A world without prisons? Ridiculous. Schools that foster the genius of every child? Impossible. A society where everyone has food, shelter, love? In your dreams. Exactly. In this Keynote, Ruha Benjamin takes us into the liberating power of the imagination. Deadly systems shaped by the school to prison pipeline, ableism, digital surveillance, and eugenics emerged from the human imagination, and have real-world impacts. To fight oppressive systems and create a world that works for all of us, we will have to imagine things differently. Ruha Benjamin will show us how educators, artists, technologists, and more are experimenting with new ways of thinking and tackling seemingly intractable problems. Let’s explore the possibilities and practices required to imagine and create more just and habitable worlds of learning and being. --- Register now to see this unforgettable keynote! https://lnkd.in/gBJ5ETGc Still not quite convinced you want to attend the Convening to see Ruha Benjamin live? Check out her latest Ted Talk! #schools #leadership #education #socialjustice #DEI #technology #science #imagination #students #empowerment https://lnkd.in/dPs-RmCv

We're honored that our EVP for Public Policy and Digital Equity, Broderick Johnson, shared his time with us in the Texas Region. While he was in town for the National Urban League Annual Conference, he also took the time to chat with KHOU and KPRC about our efforts to shrink the digital divide in Houston. You can watch his interviews in the article below. #IWorkForComcast

💻📉From tech troubles to seamless solutions! Discover how Kensington transformed a school district's tech challenges into triumphs in our new case study 🏆 Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/gTbcYgG7

“In Houston, Abbott appointed former charter school guy Mike Miles as the new superintendent, and Miles set to work implementing a new system of total control over education that he promised would improve student performance and close educational gaps. Modeled on a system he came up with for his charter schools, its name reflects the efficiency and clean straight lines of Brutalist architecture: the “New Education System” (NES). Eighty-five of Houston’s 274 campuses are currently in the system “voluntarily,” and more will be added if they know what’s good for ‘em. Among other efficiencies, the system involves all teachers working from the same PowerPoint curriculum prepared for them each day, and extremely structured class periods. To keep the focus on learning the predigested materials, 28 of the NES schools determined to be most in need of improvement have converted the school libraries into “team centers,” where students who’ve stepped out of line will be sent to do their work, and also where other kids will work individually or in groups for “enrichment” shit. More about that in a moment; here’s a pretty eye-opening report from MSNBC on all this mess.” This is happening in America?! WTH?

Representation matters.....

Computer science + robotics and applied physics should be a high requirement worldwide.

Check out this short video on how Gwinnett Technical College is Empowering their Staff with CampusLogic! Get your teams away from just answering emails and processing. Let them do more meaningful work such as more outreach and effectively connecting with students!

On March 18, Frank McCourt, founder of Project Liberty and founding donor of the McCourt School, will engage in a thought-provoking discussion with Norah O'Donnell, Anchor and Managing Editor of CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell, on technology, democracy and the future of the internet. Their conversation will dive into the critical themes explored in McCourt's powerful new book, "OUR BIGGEST FIGHT: Reclaiming Liberty, Humanity, and Dignity in the Digital Age." https://bit.ly/3VoU7jt

There are some terrific takeaways during this session. The full video will be in my upcoming Perfectly Imperfect Ponderings newsletter!

"Infrastructure is a marvel, meeting our basic needs and enabling lives of astounding ease and productivity that would have been unimaginable just a century ago. It is the physical manifestation of our social contract—of our ability to work collectively for the public good—and it consists of the most complex and vast technological systems ever created by humans." Join us Wednesday, April 10th for Olin College of Engineering Professor Deb Chachra discussion on the infrastructure systems that shape our world.