Hsing is a designer, researcher, convener, and tinkerist. She enjoys thinking about and developing technology-enriched experiences that solve problems, connect communities, and enable novel ways of interacting with the world. After wandering the halls of Penn, MIT, and Harvard, she continues to be constantly curious and helps develop new content, products, and partnerships for a range of for-profit and non-profit clients. She is an Honorary Resident at Eyebeam, where she’s created the DTC Lab, a collaboration between educators, technologists, and designers to prototype and incubate examples of what interactive learning experiences can look like that integrate emerging digital contexts, center on the student, and extend learning outside of the classroom. She is also Senior Innovation Officer at New Visions for Public Schools, leading their efforts to research, develop, pilot and diffuse innovative tools and partnership projects. She is guiding the development of EDesign, a collaborative R&D lab of individuals and institutions across the country, that aims to draw multiple disciplines into problem-solving for education and spur new ways of thinking about improving student outcomes. Her experiences span from digital games and interactive media, to venture philanthropy, product development and strategy consulting for Fortune 500 companies.
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I bet you didn't know that #G4C12 has almost 100 speakers this year, did you? http://t.co/uBObrjSc
