FETC 2018

Project Unicorn Is the Future of School IT (or Why Interoperability Matters) (Room South 330H)

What is Project Unicorn, you ask? Our vision is for schools to use data to serve, inform, and enhance teaching and learning. Leveraging classroom data effectively provides actionable insights at the right time and changes the trajectory of a student's learning by deploying the right tools. Making this a reality often falls on the school IT's staff, and the typical workaround is downloading a file and plugging it into Excel. For the promise of personalized learning to be realized, we need a common definition for how these solutions send and receive data and ultimately provide teachers with easier access to their most valuable classroom information. School IT needs help ending the human API, but how? Join our conversation an explore our vision -- Project Unicorn -- that brings uncommon allies together to change the trajectory of how data is used in education and learn how you can advocate for this change.