Can Consistent Trust Decisions Bring People Back to Work?
Bringing people back-to-work is a grand challenge that requires more than wearing masks, and conforming to hygiene, screening, and distancing. A key component of reopening the economy will be more Testing to establish trust and inform safer behaviors. Ajay Madhock dives into this issue.
Surmounting Data Barriers on Global Health Solutions
Around the world, people want to get back to work safely and responsibly. However, strategies for rebooting local, national and global economies are throttled by inadequacies in data and their networks. Marsali Hancock discusses her insights on this important issue.
Immersion for Collaboration
July 13, 2020
Over the past few months, we’ve been pressed into using virtual presence to share screens and to create meaning. In this virtual colloquia webinar series we will use existing and emerging technologies to leverage experiences and insights from the mediaX membership community of scholars, researchers, instructors and learners.
Personal Journeys Around Change
June 10, 2020
The "Sharing Personal Journeys" webinar series wraps up with Jason Wilmot as he dives into a personal story of changing mindset, routine and expectations in order to achieve a large goal that was once thought out of reach. It is important to become an agent of change and transformation instead of being rolled over by their forces.
How to Think Like a Civilization
June 2, 2020
Digital technology is the solvent leaching the glue out of our global institutions, but digital technology also presents us with the means to meet both our current challenges - and to shape a new planetary order. Paul Saffo dives into this complex challenge in the next “Thinking Tools for Wicked Problems” webinar.
How Social Emotional Learning Drives Student Well-Being and Innovation
June 3, 2020
Using our virtues and character strengths can empower us to be the best we can be and offers guidelines to other elements of well-being. These virtues and strengths can be classified and developed. Keith Coleman, a mediaX Distinguished Visiting Scholar dives into this critical in the next “Sharing Personal Journeys” webinar.
Drop Dead Happy
May 27, 2020
The mediaX webinar series "Sharing Personal Journeys" continues with mediaX Distinguished Visiting Scholar Davis Masten. In this session, after being read his last rights, Davis shares his perspective and personal insights as he explores longevity as an artist and the importance of being available to himself-in the time he is has left.
A Silver Lining in Pandemic Disruption to Learning in Schools
May 20, 2020
In the first session of the new mediaX webinar series titled Sharing Personal Journeys, Esther Wojcicki shares her expertise and personal insights into the disruption of schools during the pandemic. The discussion will focus on the commonality of learning principles at all age levels and how we can best employ them.
Drop Dead Happy
Drop Dead Happy is a simple idea for mediaX Distinguished Visiting Scholar Davis Masten. He wants his life span and his health span to give out on the same day. Preferably a day where he’s happy. In this post, Davis shares his very personal journey.