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A screening and facilitated conversation on AI in schools, from School Dismissed.
Nobody knows yet what schools should do about AI. School districts are deciding right now, fast, without a good way to talk it through, and the people building these tools rarely hear what that sounds like from inside a classroom.
It opens with a 30-minute cut of Mr. Advocate, a narrative film in which a new teacher and career changer puts on an AI Show that turns a test-obsessed school upside down, and his principal makes it clear that innovation is welcome, as long as it doesn't change anything.
The film is followed by a facilitated conversation: what this room believes about AI in schools, where it disagrees, and what it takes to hold that disagreement without it falling apart. Stacie McClam spent over ten years teaching in public schools across the United States and abroad before making the film. She is not selling a position.
5:50 pm - Doors open
6:05 pm - Intro / Film begins
6:40 pm - Panel begins / Q&A
7:10 pm - Networking
7:30 pm - Close
MEET OUR PANELISTS:
- Darion Jefferson - Forward Deployed Engineer & Founder of NEO Gents AI
- Malika Mays - Educational Leadership Consultant
- Michael Banerjee - Sound Mixer
- Grandmaster Bey - AI Expert & Consultant
MEET OUR HOST
School Dismissed is a film production company focused on films about K-12 public education issues and solutions. The founder, Stacie McClam, is a former teacher turned filmmaker. She has taught for over ten years across the United States and abroad. Stacie graduated from law school in between her teaching career to see how she could use the law to impact education. Last year she made two short films and three features films with her cast and crew. The first film in The System Trilogy called MR. ADVOCATE was released this summer.
Open to founders, investors, educators, parents, and anyone with a stake in what school becomes.
Stacie McClam · School Dismissed · www.MrAdvocateFilm.com
NOTE: There is a gate that you enter with a courtyard before you reach the actual screening room. See picture and video below.
This event is a part of #SFTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com
