Fostering Creativity Through Unique Learning Opportunities | SXSW EDU 2024

Unlocking your creativity, both inside and outside the classroom, opens up endless possibilities and yields incredible rewards. Using unique teaching methods can help foster imagination, critical thinking, and self-expression while teaching students essential skills and concepts. This past March, experts explored how to use art, comedy, music, film, and more to educate and inspire students.

Dive into sessions illuminating how purposeful expression can amplify student voice, the power of group healing experiences, unique approaches to storytelling in college essays, the impact of living a playful life and designing a playful world, and much more available on demand.

Explore these SXSW EDU 2024 sessions and discover your boundless creativity:

Featured Session: ACL: 50 Years of Live Music, 50 Years of Music Education

“The fact this is a high-quality video and a high-quality performance that the students are seeing, a lot of questions came out of watching this video instead of just the guided questions that I was giving them.”

Elizabeth Hulse
Manor ISD 2019 Elementary Teacher of the Year

Hear from Benjamin Kramer, Elizabeth Hulse, Jackie Venson, and Terry Lickona as they go through the history of Austin City Limits Live along with its educational and social impact.

Featured Session: Bridging the World with Creativity Through Colors & Typography

“I think that a creative outlet is a really wonderful way to boost not only your creativity but also your mood and help to have a sustainable sort of energy for you to work and also for you to socialize.”

Yiying Lu
Founder & Creative Director, Happy Creative Land

Journey through the importance of creativity with Yiying Lu, creator of the Dumpling 🥟 and Boba Tea 🧋 emojis, among many others.

Featured Session: Fact or Fiction? Media Literacy in the Digital Age

“How do you convince [a person] that someone gave them this information and they weren't smart enough to catch that it wasn't real?”

Shaniqua McClendon
VP of Politics, Crooked Media

Learn media literacy techniques and countermeasures from industry experts Akoto Ofori-Atta, Erin Geiger Smith, and Shaniqua McClendon.

Keynote: Science Comedy: Why It's a Thing & How to Do It

“Humor is like an experiment where the hypothesis is delightfully wrong.”

Sarah Rose Siskind
Science Comedian & Founder, Hello SciCom

Laugh out loud while you discover the importance of humor as a means to communicate with science comedian Sarah Rose Siskind.

Watch and listen to more inspiring sessions:

• Creativity Is the Durable Skill That AI Can’t Replace
• Developing Ecosystems: From Lifelong to Lifewide Learning
• Drag Story Hour: A Magical Portal for Change & Advocacy
• The Future of Education: I’ll Build It Myself
• Getting Smart on Creativity: Podcast with Stanford d.school
• Holocaust Education Through Art
• How to Maximize Summer Learning
• Intergenerational Programs Advancing Arts Education
• Music Therapy in the Chi: Recording Arts Infused with SEL
• On the Record: Music in Every Classroom
• Print on Purpose: Hearts & Crafts at Stanford's d.school
• Storytelling in College Essays Post Affirmative Action
• Teaching Ideas with Visual Thinking
• Teaching with Film: Life as a Teen Ukrainian War Refugee
• The TOMONOSHi! Way: Designing a More Playful World
• The Uvalde Love Project: Community Art Therapy in Action

Watch SXSW EDU 2024 On-Demand Content

Take a look back at SXSW EDU 2024 and relive exciting Keynote, Featured Sessions, and more, now available to watch on our official YouTube channel, plus listen to hundreds of audio recordings in the schedule.

Stay tuned for more information about registration and participation opportunities for SXSW EDU 2025 coming later this summer.

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