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Youth Re-envisioning the Future of Education

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The locus of discussion on empowerment through student voice often rests in refined adult writing. Here, four students were given the opportunity to offer perspectives of the future of education as a result of attending the ninth Workshop on the Impact of Pen and Touch Technology on Education. The authors, three females and two males ranging in age from 13–15, were part of two teams in the High School Design Challenge during WIPTTE in 2015, now known as the Conference on Pen and Touch Technology in Education (CPTTE). This contribution provides insight into the process students took to design concepts for original games leveraging gesture, pen and touch technology that “strategically attracts users for long-term use (over many months).” They discuss their designs for game concepts they named Live & Learn, and Plumbum and Touch. They conclude with their vision for the future of education. The experience allowed them to realize the power of student voice in education. Their writing provides a glimpse into formal and informal learning environments they have lived within. Evidence of blended learning allowing for the intersection of human connection, experiential learning, lecture, and cross-age mentoring have been transferred into this culminating piece that originated from complex, real-world design challenges, failure, redesign, redrafting and communicating ideas.

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Acknowledgments

Thanks to Jonathan Grudin for his efforts in securing scholarships for the participating high school students. Thanks to Michel Pahud for organizing a field trip to talk about his work as a researcher. Thanks to Chris Pratley for reaching out to the Sway team and David Jones for the students to experience the Envisioning Center. Thanks to Ari Schorr for opening speaking opportunities to students and mentoring them by telling truelife stories of discovering passion in the tech field, and bringing in colleagues as role models to talk to the students. Thanks to Robyn Hrivnatz for providing leadership in the Education team, opening opportunities to the students and encouraging Zimmerman to become part of the MIE Expert team. Thanks to Tracy Hammond and Stephanie Valentine showed students they were an important part of the conversation at WIPTTE. Thanks to Juli Lorton for her influence in Zimmerman’s research design and her feedback during drafts for this chapter. To David-Paul and Gloria who made Renton Prep a reality, so many students are forever changed.

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    Kayla Gonzalvo, Tiffany Dinh, Scott Nguyen, Jasmine Fernandez & Michelle Zimmerman

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Gonzalvo, K., Dinh, T., Nguyen, S., Fernandez, J., Zimmerman, M. (2016). Youth Re-envisioning the Future of Education. In: Hammond, T., Valentine, S., Adler, A. (eds) Revolutionizing Education with Digital Ink. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31193-7_26

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