Archive for the ‘Summit Speaker’ Category
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Design Thinking In Entertainment: Laura Dames
Laura Dames is senior vice president of Business Operations for Turner Entertainment Networks (TEN), which includes industry leading television brands TBS, TNT, Turner Classic Movies (TCM) and truTV. In this unique role, she oversees many critical functions for the networks, including leading the vision and strategy for formatting of on-air inventory and programming as well as ...
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Design Thinking In Higher Ed: Leonard Medlock
Leonard Medlock is co-founder of Inner City Educational Technologies (ICEdT), where he designs casual learning games geared towards urban youth. He is currently working on RAPGA.ME, a Twitter app that fuses Hip-Hop battle tradition with on-the-go status updates to spur creative writing. He began working on the game as part of his Master’s project, BarupMobi, completed ...
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Design Thinking In K12 Ed: Kim Saxe
Kim Saxe, Director of the Innovation Lab at The Nueva School and lecturer at Stanford University, is a long time educator, and former engineer and R&D director. She has been teaching over 20 years, the last 14 at Nueva. She is a pioneer in the field of Design Thinking and Design Engineering in K-8 education. ...
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Design Thinking In K12 Ed: Mary Cantwell
Mary Cantwell is a 14 year veteran educator with a Master’s degree in Educational Leadership in Technology. During her 5 years at Mount Vernon Presbyterian School, she has led the Science Lab instruction for kindergarten through 5th grade and is a member of the Faculty IT Support Team. Most recently, as the Design Thinking Coordinator ...