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Keynote speaker Megan Bang, Professor of the Learning Sciences and Director of the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research at Northwestern University, launched Day 1 with her keynote address “Learning & Technology for Just & Sustainable Futures.”  Dr. Bang discussed why the social, cultural, ethical, and political dimensions of technology should be more central and explicit in learning environments, and shared examples of two projects in which technology, introduced in cultural practices, contributed to indigenous communities' embedding technologies in more expansive ways.

Dr. Bang is a member of STELAR’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility (DEIA) Advisory.