Innovation Showcases (Asynchronous Session)
Experiential Entrepreneurship: Teaching the Seven Strategies for Character Development View Digital Media
Innovation Showcase Kerri Cissna
Global Innovation is an opportunity for expedited change, but how do we teach it? This session will explore the Seven Strategies for Character Development which were used to design an experiential learning experience for undergraduate students at Wake Forest University. The course was comprised of case studies and the creation of a podcast to teach students the importance of leadership and character in entrepreneurship and innovation management.
Break Out Practice with Genially for the European Researchers' Night 2020 View Digital Media
Innovation Showcase Cristina Manchado Nieto
The European Commission has promoted research activities through the European Researchers’ Night since 2005, founded under Marie Sklodowska-Curie (MSCA). Thanks to this event, many cities across Europe celebrate and give public recognition to researchers every November 27 by organising talks, workshops and scientific walks in which researchers are involved. In 2020, despite the circumstances derived from COVID-19, Europe celebrated the European Researchers’ Night in a online format not to let aside the public awareness, among young people above all, of the role of research in society. The University of Extremadura (Spain) also took part of this year’s event, and the Teacher Training College of Cáceres participated with the elaboration of projects to develop online talks and workshops for adults and children. The showcase presented here introduces the online workshop elaborated for the European Researchers’ Night 2020 with the aim of teaching English concepts to children between 6 and 12 years. This online workshop was a “break-out” activity carried out with the tool called Genially and gives importance not only to ICT resources but also opens new possibilities regarding online teaching tools and innovative practices.
To Speak in Salt - Poetry Reading
Innovation Showcase Becky Thompson
In 2015-2016 over one million people from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Palestine, and other countries fled war in their homelands to Turkey where they took rafts across the Aegean Sea to the Greek Islands. Because of its close proximity to Turkey, Lesvos was the center of this fleeing. Once in Lesvos, families walked across the island as they made their way toward northern European countries. What was identified as the biggest refugee crisis since WWII was also the biggest intergenerational, multilingual peace march in modern history. With nods to Sappho, Minoan pots, and silhouettes crossing the burning sun this collection circles around refugee resilience and resistance as it draws upon the poet’s work meeting rafts, providing humanitarian relief and teaching poetry in refugee centers. Lead witnesses in the collection: Sand: willing to hold a raft’s imprint until the next high tide. Keys: from houses in Syria kept on a ring under diapers in a satchel. Satchel: carried or thrown overboard if a raft is sinking. Poetry: climbs mountain passes, is tucked into the Quran, sung in verse.Lesvos: made from a volcano, Lepetymnos. Quiet now. Moria: the biggest refugee “camp” in Europe that burned to the ground last October. Emi: Greek chef who snuck families across the island in her van before dawn. Dots: get bigger or disappear on the Aegean horizon. Sona: eight-year-old from Guinea Bissau. Fire: leaps across tents, devours passports, pacifiers, date meat, olive trees, and shade.
Knowing the World by Simulations and Computations: Computational Social Simulation with E-CARGO View Digital Media
Innovation Showcase Haibin Zhu
Humans are social beings and people cannot live alone. Computational social simulation (CSS) is a way to reproduce a real-world society and study the behavior of people in that society using computer-based systems. CSS is a long-term, cutting-edge topic in the interdisciplinary field where information technology, computer science, social science, and sociology overlap. Role-Based Collaboration (RBC) has been proposed as a computational approach to facilitating collaboration. RBC supports collaboration by taking advantage of roles by role negotiation, role assignment, role execution, and role transfer. Environments – Classes, Agents, Roles, Groups, and Objects (E-CARGO) is a general model for RBC, and has a good match for the requirements of computational social simulations. In this session, we establish the fundamental requirements for social simulation and demonstrate that RBC, E-CARGO, Group Role Assignment (GRA), and Adaptive Collaboration (AC) methodologies and models are highly qualified to meet these requirements. Based on E-CARGO and GRA, we present a new approach to social simulation with E-CARGO related components, models, and algorithms. This presentation illustrates several interesting case studies of computational social simulations: 1) a comparison between collectivism and individualism; 2) how to acquire the preferred position in a team of collectivism; and 3) why the USA president opposes globalization. Our continuous research on RBC and E-CARGO informs that social, political and economic phenomena can be explained by GRA, which demonstrates a collective team effort. GRA with constraints and GRA with multiple objectives can be further applied to simulate more complex phenomena in these areas.
Managing Compassion Fatigue in Trauma Informed Care: Using Psychoanalytic Teaching Principles to Support the Psychological Sustainability of Frontline Workers on Multiple Fronts View Digital Media
Innovation Showcase Madeleine Lansky
Based on a popular lecture taught to doctors, nurses, therapists, educators, clinic staff and medical students throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, Dr. Lansky will present a video entitled "Managing Compassion Fatigue in Trauma Informed Care.” Based on experiences working on the frontline as an educator and physician, and incorporating lessons learned from hospital emergency rooms, outdoor classrooms, social protests sites, inpatient psychiatry units, and therapeutic schools for severely emotionally disturbed kids and families, this teaching informs systems thinking with a focus on how healthy environments amplify mental wellness. It will incorporate psychoanalytic concepts that are explained with easily understood natural metaphors, offering useful techniques to aid in "composting' the negative internal feelings that can arise on the frontlines of a variety of crisis situations. On these frontlines--be they health care, mental illness, climate change, education, art, technology, geopolitics, economic disparities, law enforcement, or social movements--the need to approach a crisis from a trauma-informed perspective is critical, but often difficult to maintain in high stakes or disturbing situations. The video and discussion will be accessible to those from multiple educational, professional, and cultural backgrounds and be followed by a conversation about practical applications. With humor, wisdom, and compassion, the video and discussion will offer an opportunity to think together creatively and productively with a multidisciplinary perspective. Our multiple global crises insist we "compost" these "dangerous opportunities" into resilient, regenerative solutions and paradigms, and we will aim to do so with bravery, curiosity, and good cheer.
