If you wanted to make a keynote feel more like indoctrination than an opportunity to stretch the mind, I can't thing of a better method. The '3 fresh strategies' come strain from that playbook: first, facilitated pre- and post-keynote sessions, to frame it; second, a curated Q&A session to screen participant interaction; and third, mandatory poster sessions. Now I admin, I might have been a bit jaded, after reading the sixteen Principles of Learning authored by presenters Jenn White and Josh Kurzweil. I mean, maybe this approach is good for children (though I doubt it). But speaking for myself, I would find such a tightly regimented professional development event to be a form of torture.
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