How Might We Humanise Technology?
The Exchange is thrilled to announce that they will be co-facilitating The Game Changer Challenge with The Department of Education on Friday the 9th of August. Nathan Shooter is excited to be joining the panel!
The Game Changer Challenge Dubbo is an exciting education and networking opportunity for regional students that will involve a one-day design-thinking sprint working on the Challenge questions, 'How might we humanise technology? Students will be asked to address the issue from a regional context.
Audience tickets available
Each team will pitch at the end of the day, and The Exchange would like YOU to come along and watch them pitch their ideas at the end of the day. To reserve a ticket, register now below, limited spots available!
Exploring the big question: How Might We Humanise Technology?
Through this topic we aim to explore questions such as:
What does it mean to humanise technology?
Can we build social and emotional intelligence in AI so a machine has empathy?
Can we utilise technology as a force for good to save the planet? Or will the darker side of human nature come to the fore?
Could a robot do our job? And if so, how would we get by and what would we do with all our free time?
Will we begin to live our lives virtually?
History of the Game Changer Challenge
Launched in 2018, the Game Changer Challenge has become an annual event open to 2200+ schools and 800,000 students across NSW, Australia.
The challenge is designed to make strong learning and teaching connections to the NSW syllabus specifically in the area of developing general capabilities such as critical thinking, collaboration, creativity, communication and problem-solving.
The challenge also provides teachers with an opportunity to gain exposure to the design thinking process and includes teacher resources to introduce this creative problem-solving methodology into the classroom.
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Game Changer Challenge travels to Dubbo, Australia for first time
The Exchange is thrilled to announce that we will be co-facilitating The Game Changer Challenge with The Department of Education on Friday the 9th of August!
The Game Changer Challenge Dubbo is an exciting education and networking opportunity for regional students that will involve a one-day design-thinking sprint working on the Challenge questions, 'How might we humanise technology? Students will be asked to address the issue from a regional context.
Each team will pitch at the end of the day and we would like to invite YOU to come along and watch them pitch their ideas at the end of the day. Register now below, limited spots available!
More than 60 students will travel to Dubbo on Thursday [AUGUST 8] to develop ideas on the role technology will play in changing the lives of regional Australia.
The students are competing in the Game Changer Challenge – Dubbo, a Department of Education initiative that is being brought to a regional centre for the first time.
The Game Changer Challenge was launched in 2018 to promote future-focused skills such as critical thinking, empathy, creativity and collaboration among students and teachers by exposing them to the problem-solving processes known as Design Thinking.
Students from nine schools across central-western NSW will start the Challenge at Taronga Western Plains Zoo on Thursday before taking the event to The Exchange at Charles Sturt University on Friday August 9.
The Exchange is a social impact organisation focused on increasing the chance of commercial success of start-ups in the Orana Region, based in Dubbo.
The Exchange founder Jillian Kilby was a key panellist at the Sydney event where students questioned some of Australia’s leading thinkers on the future during a Q&A-style discussion.
The Exchange community manager Minna Demetriou said with support from the facilities at Charles Sturt University, Dubbo Campus, The Exchange was thrilled to be co-facilitating the regional component of The Game Changer Challenge.
“It is important for us to support programs like The Game Changer in the region, as these students are our future start-up founders,” she said.
To kick off the Dubbo Challenge a similar panel discussion will be held with leading regional entrepreneurs:
Emma Elliott, director, Little Big Dairy company;
Nathan Shooter, personal branding expert and creative marketing strategist;
Tom Larkin, Director, IEC Advisory Pty Ltd; and
Stephanie Hendricks, founder of FarmFetched, an online app linking the farming and hospitality sectors.
The students will then spend the rest of the day designing a solution to the 2019 Challenge question; How might we humanise technology to benefit regional Australia?
Secretary of the Department of Education Mark Scott said the Game Changer Challenge was an exciting opportunity for students to work alongside some of the most creative and disruptive thinkers in the country.
“This opportunity showcases how as a public education system we are ensuring our students can thrive in a rapidly changing world by giving them the knowledge and skills to translate learning from the classroom into a real-life context,” Mr Scott said.
Included in the Friday program is a Makerspace experience, where students and teachers will have access to, and tutorials from industry experts on, the latest educational technology.
At the close of the event, each team will ‘pitch’ their solution to the Challenge question to the judging panel which includes Megan Dixon, Director, Regional Development Australia Orana, Bart Sykes, Campus Development Manager, CSU Dubbo and Joh Leader, CEO, Leader Life.
MEDIA OPPORTUNITY: FRIDAY, AUGUST 9
WHERE: The Exchange, Charles Sturt University, Dubbo Campus, Main Building, 8 Tony McGrane Place, Dubbo, NSW, Australia
TIME: REGIONAL PANEL 9.10am-9:40am FINAL PITCHES TO THE JUDGING PANEL WILL BE HELD FROM 3PM WITH A WINNER ANNOUNCED AT 3.40pm. Students will be working on Challenge question throughout the day.
For more information contact: Dani Cooper on 0417 048063
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