Description
Join former Walt Disney Imagineer Brian Collins, Dr. Carissa Baker, University of Central Florida, and other instructors in an exploration of education as storytelling. Learn from experts in storytelling and creating interactive, spatial narratives, to transform education, schooling and learning for the 21st century. Imagine a future in which schools are the happiest places on Earth.
Request the group rate at the beautiful Rosen Centre Hotel on International Drive. Invite families and friends to stay before or after the event at conference rates. Toll free 1-800-204-7234.
Friday, November 15, 2019 9:00 am – 5:00 pm. Disney’s Hollywood Studios, including the all-new Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge
Spend the day with former Walt Disney Imagineer, Brian Collins, and other instructors at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, including the spectacular new land, Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, to learn how to “think like Walt” and transform education, schooling and learning by combining storytelling, design thinking and media literacy in an XBL (Experience Based Learning) approach within a STEMD curriculum (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math + Media and Design).
Learn to enhance learning experiences by designing natural, built, simulated, augmented, virtual, and imagined environments.
Details about where to meet at the Park will be provided to registered participants. Meals and park entrance are not included.
Saturday, November 16, 2019 8:00 am – 5:00 pm. Rosen Centre Hotel, International Drive
Join Dr. Carissa Baker, Brian Collins and other instructors in thinking about ways to revise educational approaches based on the principles of themed education design. Her workshop will focus on what makes theme parks compelling and potentially transformative spaces. It will highlight ways to use theme parks as a subject in the classroom and the potential of the theme park as a learning space. The session will conclude with a charrette focused on creating a model classroom, school or learning environment that applies the principles for developing transformative education, schooling and learning.
Learn how to enrich learning by designing 1D communicataion (lines of text and strings of numbers); 2D pages and screens; 3D objects and products; 4D spaces and places; and 5D interactions and experience design.
Breakfast provided – 8:00 am . Program begins – 9:00 am. Lunch provided – 12:00 noon. Program ends – 5:00 pm
For more information and to register go to: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/education-storytelling-tickets-69584524185
Tell your colleagues, friends and family about this groundbreaking professional development opportunity. Your friends and family can stay at the Rosen Centre at the reduced conference rate even if they don’t attend the conference. Book Rooms by October 15, 2019. Toll free 1-800-204-7234.