In partnership with the LA Fund, Google is hosting a special event exploring how science and technology take many forms in our everyday lives, specifically in music. The name of the event is Hacking the Note: How Music and Tech Shape Us. It will be geared towards student Black/Latino boys and girls based in LA as it encourages them to consider a career in computer science (perhaps as it pertains to music!). Music and code intertwine to create magic and we'd like to highlight this in the hopes of normalizing STEAM fields for our youth.
The day will begin with a tech-oriented discussion amongst a panel of esteemed music producers and STEAM advocates. The students will then break into working groups and participate in an exercise that allows them to code their own music and sounds. They'll get to share their creations to the larger group and leave with a broader sense of what computer science entails.
Panelists: Jim Beanz - Producer/Singer/Musician, Timbaland Productions and Sunset Entertainment Group Young Guru - Audio Engineer/Producer/DJ, Roc-A-Fella and Def Jam Marcella Araica - Mixing-Recording Engineer/Producer, N.A.R.S and Mosley Music Group Richy Jackson - Dancer/Choreographer/TV Personality, Visual Director for Lady Gaga Wendy Calhoun (moderator) - Executive Producer/Writer, Credits: Empire, Nashville, etc.
Special performances by Zack Zilla!
Hosted by Daraiha Greene, Google CS Education in Media Specialist
More than one million students from over 11 countries have taken an Expedition since we introduced the Google Expeditions Pioneer Program last May. The program lets students take virtual reality trips to over 200 places including Buckingham Palace, underwater in the Great Barrier Reef—and in seventh grader Lance Teeselink’s case—Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world.
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We commissioned filmmaker Nic Askew (http://soulbiographies.com) to make a series of films about connected learning, a new approach to learning he called "courageous" and "transformational."
This film introduces the story of connected learning, the outcome of a six-year research effort supported by the MacArthur Foundation into how learning, education, and schooling could be reimagined for a networked world.
The film asks: - 'Might the information age have presented us with the opportunity for a fundamental reimagining of the way we educate our children?' - 'How might education come to life if children were to possess a burning need to know?' - 'Might we each have a part to play?' - 'Might this digital age hold the possibility of bringing us closer together?'
