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ONLINE CONFERENCE :
EMBRACE THE CREATIVITY AMIDST COVID -19 CRISIS
on United Nation's World Creativity and Innovation Day 21 April 2020
Council for Creative Education in collaboration with the University of Jyväskylä cordially invites you to the Online Conference Embrace the Creativity amidst COVID-19 Crisis. The conference is organized to celebrate the United Nation’s World Creativity and Innovation Day (https://www.un.org/en/events/creativityday/) and at the same time to reflect on the current situation across the globe, which is in great pain and grief due to the pandemic.
Amongst these gloomy times, there are many of us, who are fighting with courage and finding new ways to cope with the unusual situation. Creativity is at its peak in such circumstances where you need to be innovative in your day-to-day life, work and survival.
UNESCO has declared April 21st as the World Creativity and Innovation Day in the year 2018.
Let’s listen to the stories about the fight and innovation across many nations especially in the field of education in our Online Conference on the World Creativity and Innovation Day, 21st April 2020.
This event is free for everyone. This is a pre-event for our upcoming 7th Symposium in November 2020.
Opening Remarks video by Kristóf Fenyvesi for the Online Conference
Who can attend?
Hands-on STEAM model approximation of COVID-19 with 4Dframe
Everybody is encouraged to join our event online. We believe that educators, entrepreneurs, parents, and students can greatly benefit from the presentations and conversations. Researchers and teachers (pre-primary, primary, secondary and higher section), principals, educators, trainers, students from teacher education are welcome to present their ideas during live interactions with speakers. We are also encouraging policy-makers responsible for various government institutes, educational policies to join this conference.
How to attend?
The first step to attend the conference is to fill-up the registration form. It is important to fill up the registration form to get the certificate of attendance.
All pre-recorded videos and live interaction with the speakers will be streamed on various platforms, like CCE's YouTube channel, Facebook and also on the Website.
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Structure of the Conference
Considering the technical glitches and different time zones, CCE has come up with a unique approach for the online conference. The conference will be divided into two parts. The first part will be streaming the pre-recorded videos by the speakers according to the theme of their talk. The second part is the online live interaction with the speakers.
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Part - 1: All pre-recorded videos from the speakers will be streamed on various days, on the following platforms like CCE's YouTube channel, Facebook and also on the Website.
Sessions will be broadcasted as follows:
Time: 11:00 (UTC+03 Finland) and 13:30 (UTC+05:30 India)
Session 1 - 16 April 2020
Session 2 - 17 April 2020
Session 3 and Keynote - 18 April 2020
All these sessions will be broadcasted together on 21st April again from 10:00 to 12:30 (UTC + 03 Finland)
Part - 2: Live Interaction with speakers
Time Duration: 3 hrs 30 mins including short breaks
Date: 21 April 2020
Time:
13:00 to 16:30 (UTC+03 Finland)
15:30 to 19:00 (UTC+05:30 India)
05:00 to 08:30 (UTC-4 Washington, DC, USA)
Note :- For the 21st April conference, the issuing of the certificates has now been closed.
Video sessions will also be streamed on CCE Facebook and CCE's YouTube Channel.
SESSION 1:
Creativity & Innovation for Organizing Teaching and Learning During Covid-19 Crisis / Q&A
LIVE INTERACTION WITH SPEAKERS:
Kati Clements, Saana Mehtälä, Tiina Mäkelä, Zhao Yuqian, Luisa Lenta, Huei Syuan Lin & Ing Ru Chen
1. Kati Clements & Saana Mehtälä
Finding ways to share good practices for organizing teaching during the COVID-19 Crisis
Link: https://youtu.be/BH6FHBiO7Vs
(Premiere at 11:00 in Finland time)
2. Tiina Mäkelä
“Moment of truth in distance learning”: Expert support for educators, parents, and learners during COVID-19 crisis in Finland
Link: https://youtu.be/wjunxUeoiC8 (Premiere at 12:00 noon in Finland time)
3. Zhao Yuqian
Distance Education of Playful Coding for Children in Hubei Province During the COVID-19 Crisis
Link: https://youtu.be/Ms4v0hMhw9I (Premiere at 13:00 in Finland time)
4. Luisa Lenta
The Red Zone: Isolated but Connected
Link: https://youtu.be/5E8mjH4DDXc (Premiere at 14:00 in Finland time)
5. Ing Ru Chen
& Huei Syuan Lin
STEAM Movement and Developing Critical Skills for Critical Times in Taiwan for the Youth by the Youth
Link: https://youtu.be/uTUl7DqFGyI
(Premiere at 15:00 in Finland time)
Speaker Profile
Name
Topic
Video Session
6. Paul Hildebrandt
Viruses and Hyperspace
Link: https://youtu.be/QAxaGW1PUpI (Premiere at 11:00 in Finland time)
7. Mike Acerra
Hands-on Modeling and STEAM Learning about viruses, including COVID-19 with LUX BLOX
Link: https://youtu.be/hxr1CPqUlxM (Premiere at 12:00 noon in Finland time)
8. Thierry (Noah) Dana-Picard
E-Teaching of Differential Geometry in a time of COVID-19 crisis
Link: https://youtu.be/kHGX-CmeeTQ
(Premiere at 13:00 in Finland time)
9. Janika Leoste
Robotics Education During and After the COVID-19 Crisis
Link: https://youtu.be/uywpF9XZGH0 (Premiere at 14:00 in Finland time)
SESSION 2:
Creativity & Innovation for Learning About COVID-19 Crisis / Q&A
LIVE INTERACTION WITH SPEAKERS:
Paul Hildebrandt, Kristof Fenyvesi, Mike Acerra, Thierry (Noah) Dana-Picard & Janika Leoste
10. Pamela Burnard
Revisioning New Ideas of STEAM, Enacting ‘Art-Science Creativity’, Attending to the Present (and Post) COVID-19 Outbreak
Link: https://youtu.be/MvaSiUJeX0Y
(Premiere at 09:00 Finland time)
11.Anne M. Harris
Creative Ecologies in the time of COVID-19
Link: https://youtu.be/27M6pnJkFpo
(Premiere at 10:00 Finland time)
SESSION 3:
Creativity & Innovation: Critical Skills for Critical Times, Health and Well-being / Q&A
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Pekka Neittaanmäki & Heikki Lyytinen
LIVE INTERACTION WITH SPEAKERS:
Pamela Burnard, Anne Harris, Csilla Lázár, Jukka Sinnemaki, Andrea Kárpáti, Christopher Brownell, Zsolt Lavicza & Kristof Fenyvesi, Andreas Daniel Matt, Vilmos Vass, Jim Friedman
Pekka Neittaanmäki
UN’s Day of Creativity and Innovation: Critical Skills in Critical Times
Link: https://youtu.be/wwDHZyUq3kY (Premiere at 17:00 in Finland time)
Heikki Lyytinen
UN’s Day of Creativity and Innovation: Critical Skills in Critical Times
Link: https://youtu.be/2kbi3y10r98 (Premiere at 18:00 Finland time)
Link: https://youtu.be/ZbNpkv6qIpU
(Premiere at 13:00 Finnish time)
15. Christopher S. Brownell
STEAM Education Efforts Include Playful Mathematics
Link: https://youtu.be/iAZtks57c88
(Premiere at 14:00 Finland time)
16. Kristof Fenyvesi
Creativity and Innovation: Developing Critical Skills for Critical Times through STEAM Learning
Link: https://youtu.be/47KBNN9Cdmw
(Premiere at 16:45 Finland time)
17. Zsolt Lavicza
Developing technological and pedagogical innovations in STEAM education
Link: https://youtu.be/Q_LCyTyIVls
(Premiere at 16:00 Finland time)
Andreas Daniel Matt
Celebrating first International UNESCO Day of Mathematics amidst Covid-19 Crisis
Vilmos Vass
Reflections on Creativity, as aCritical Skills in Critical Times
Live Comments During Session 3
Jim Friedman
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Live Comments During Session 3
Reidun Twarock
Virus Structure through a Mathematical Microscope
Learning happens when you see the unseen in every child
13. Jukka Sinnemäki
14. Andrea Kárpáti
Arts for social change: the creative outreach of AMASS
Link: https://youtu.be/VdugycWhtkk
(Premiere at 12:00 Finland time)
Everyday Creativity - boosting the internal creative resources of European schools with Finnish models of education for creativity
Link: https://youtu.be/_yQpFWZ3zPI
(Premiere at 11:00 Finland time)
12. Csilla Lázár
Co-ordinators of the Conference
Heramb Kulkarni
Head, ICT Development, and Strategy, CCE Finland
Speaker and trainer on EduTech, collaborative learning, and innovation across 12 countries. Trained more than 14000+ teachers, Educators, leaders on strategy and ICT innovations Research.
Heramb consults many governments and large organizations across 3 continents, Europe, Asia, and Africa within key countries like Denmark, USA, Bahrain and Indian states like Delhi, Chhattisgarh, and Maharashtra. His research areas are educational technology and creativity, global education reforms and collaborative innovations. As an educator, social entrepreneur and technology wizard, he is on the advisory board of many educational institutes and innovative start-ups across Europe and India. He has held leadership positions across large MNCs like Nokia, Lucent Technologies, Skyworks and Accenture with vast experience in technology, architecture and software development domain
Shirin Kulkarni
Research Director, CCE Finland
Researcher in the field of Creative Thinking and education for more than 14 years.
Research Areas:
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Creativity and School Environment
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A comparative study between India and Finland
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CII (Creativity-identity Interaction) model
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Narrative teaching techniques
Experienced trainer and psychologist
Research Director, CCE Finland
Kristof Fenyvesi
Researcher of STEAM Education and Multidisciplinary Learning, Finnish Institute for Educational Research, University of Jyväskylä
Research Fields: STEAM education; trans-, multidisciplinary and phenomenon-based learning, key competence development; connections between arts & mathematics; problem-solving, playfulness, experience-oriented, and cooperative approaches in learning; hands-on and digital modelling in mathematics, art and design; interdisciplinary aesthetics.
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Innovative Learning Environments Research Group (https://www.jyu.fi/it/fi/tutkimus/tutkimusalueet/ile) at the Finnish Institute for Educational Research (https://ktl.jyu.fi/en), University of Jyväskylä. Head of STEAMnet Educational Network (https://www.jyu.fi/it/en/research/research-areas/cognitive-science-and-educational-technology/ile/projects/steamnet). Director of Outreach Events of the world’s largest mathematics and arts community, the Bridges Organization. Founder of Experience Workshop Global STEAM Network
Matti Savonen
I work in research project coordination at the University of Jyväskylä Faculty of Information Technology with emphasis on artificial intelligence and health care.