Local School Needs the Community’s Help to Present at SXSWedu 2017

Chestnut Hill’s Beaver Country Day School previously presented at SXSWedu in 2014 and 2015 to share their ground-breaking initiative the “Coded Curriculum.” This year, Beaver hopes to return to the conference, alongside experts from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, to share information on the power of unlearning.

When faced with a new problem, we often rely on our old habits and past experiences to guide our decision-making process; we tap into existing schemas and leverage things we already know to reach a solution. But the practice of unlearning hopes to undo all that. The conscious act of unlearning, as unintuitive as it may seem, helps students and teachers approach problems with a new perspective, and will enable them to tackle and conquer educational challenges that may have been impossible based on their old way of thinking.

Beaver is excited about the opportunity to return to SXSWedu, but since votes from the public count for 30% of programming selection, they need the community's help! Voting is open through September 2 on the SXSWedu PanelPicker. To vote for Beaver, simply create a free account, log in and give their proposal a thumbs up.

Click here to view and vote for Beaver’s proposal “Forget what you know: the power of unlearning.”