What do the arts, brain research, and creativity have to do with the emerging face of education?
EVERYTHING! The “creative class” is on the move, and as the world flattens and competition in the global economy increases, the roles of creativity and innovation come into focus. To get us thinking about education’s role in growing the leaders of tomorrow, ISTE has asked futurist Andrew Zolli to return to the NECC Keynote stage and moderate an articulate and energetic dialogue between some of the most diverse and credible minds making things happen in today’s world. Building on the theories and trends presented in Sunday’s Opening Keynote, Zolli brings together: • Elizabeth Streb, Choreographer. For more than 20 years, Elizabeth Streb has asked questions that challenge many widely accepted assumptions about dance. Her investigation of movement through the study of science and the human body has led her to make formal choices which vary from traditional norms. Aesthetics of grace, the use or camouflage of gravity, the presence or absence of transitions, treatment of gender, the nature
