Michael Cohen | The Tech Rabbi: Designer and Technologist Turned Educator

Michael Cohen

The Tech Rabbi: Designer and Technologist Turned Educator

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Michael Cohen
Featured Keynote Programs

Educated By Design
Designing The Space To Cultivate Creative Capacity

In today’s world, we have an incredible opportunity to provide students with resources and experiences that will help them develop strong creative and critical thinking skills to solve interesting problems in the world. Opportunities to leverage academic skills and knowledge to practice entrepreneurship in order to create meaningful experiences that can positively impact those around them. In this session, Michael will share what that innovative practice looks like and how it can advance forward to new frontiers that can better prepare our students for a future that is unscripted and unknown.

Igniting The Spark
Empowering Students Through Media Creation With Adobe Spark

Ads, Billboards, and Magazines, it seems the world has mastered the art of visual storytelling, and more importantly effective and engaging communication. The World Economic Forum says that by 2020 creativity will be one of the “10 skills you need to thrive in the Fourth Industrial Revolution”. How are we preparing our students to visually communicate beyond powerpoint slides? Discover how Adobe Spark’s simple and powerful app suite can prepare our students to master the art of visual communication through imagery, color, and text to develop a creative and visual foundation for their future.

Everyone Should Create
Exploring Creativity Apps On The iPad

Creativity is the way you look at the world. As educators, we have an incredible opportunity to teach our students how to leverage technology to see the world differently and engage with it. Their ability to communicate their ideas through video, photography, drawing, music, and more, gives their work a sense of personalization, empowerment, and opportunity. Come learn how Apple’s iPad and a suite of creativity apps can help teachers give students the tools to let their creativity flourish and a chance to create work that can positively impact those around them.

Using Design Thinking and Technology To Foster Creative Problem Solving

Design thinking is a powerful framework that, when used, can help students create real impact in the world. In this session, participants will learn about how design thinking and technology can help build and improve communities both in school and beyond. Using a design-driven experience curriculum, administrators and education leaders will learn how to introduce this approach in their classrooms to help students use academic skills and knowledge to ideate the solutions to help communities around them.

The Entrepreneurial Spark
Creating The Space To Promote Entrepreneurial Thinking

Workshop

Entrepreneurial thinking is less about starting and running a business and more about how you look at the world around you differently and seek out to solve problems you see in the world. In this workshop participants will embark on a journey towards creating dedicated time and space at their school for students to learn about, develop, and pursue challenges they care about through the lens of entrepreneurial problem-solving.

Discover 5 Ways Design Thinking Can Impact Faculty Culture and Collaboration

If we want collaborative practice and creativity to become part of student culture, it needs to be modeled by teachers with a goal that it permeates faculty culture. Learn how design thinking, a framework for empathy-focused problem-solving, can improve our faculty culture and foster a community of collaborators.

3 Ways that NFTs Will Define the Future of Tech

We are at a crossroads in technology and must lead the way in introducing students to emerging technologies so they can become skilled in using them in their adulthood. NFTs (non-fungible tokens) are more than just a new tech, they're part of the next generation of internet, Web 3.0.

Crypto, NFTs, Metaverse, Blockchain

As an educator, are you wondering what these terms are? Do these ideas have anything to do with education? There's an internet renaissance taking place across finance, politics, technology, and other industries, called web3. Similar to the rise of the internet, web3 is changing the way people operate, socially and professionally. Come discover how your web3 mastery could open up new professional doors and empower your students to be ready for the next technology revolution.

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