Khalid Smith, Education Leader at Startup Weekend, talks about the process of uniting educators with designers and entrepreneurs and - occupied with the problems of EdTech - using design challenges to understand a problem deeply, create solutions, and then use technology to scale.
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Khalid Smith
Khalid Smith helps hackers and education experts build teams, start companies and acquire the resources to make meaningful advances in the way people teach and learn. Khalid is the founding director of Startup Weekend Education, the education focused sub-brand of Startup Weekend, a global experiential education movement empowering communities through the teaching of entrepreneurship. Khalid is also the founder and chief architect of LessonCast.org, a professional development platform supporting educators using lean principles to improve instruction.
Khalid Smith, Education Leader for Startup Weekend, looks at the importance of project-based learning and bringing together ideas from the education and tech worlds to get students to "start doing."