The School of Tomorrow Festival 2015 kicks off today

Karachi
The Beaconhouse School System is organising a two-day festival ‘School of Tomorrow (SOT) Education and Cultural Festival 2015’ from Saturday (today) at a local hotel, a Beaconhouse official stated on Friday. A ccording to the official, Pakistan's first international education and cultural festival would look at the ever-increasing influence of media and digital technologies, art and popular culture, climate change and environment, geopolitics and global security – and the society itself – on the changing nature of schools. Some of the local and international speakers at the festival include Alan Kay, a close associate of the late Steve Jobs, who is credited with having created the graphical user interface that is taken for granted today on Windows and Apple computers. Radical educator Roger Schank, Sindh Education Minister Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, Education Secretary Dr Fazlullah Pechuho, educator and artist Salima Hashmi, artist extraordinaire Rashid Rana, progressive thinker and physicist Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy, PASHA head Jehanara, OUP/KLF Head Ameena Saiyid, Chairperson Care Foundation Seema Aziz, actors Adnan Malik and Omair Rana, singer and philanthropist Shahzad Roy, designers Hassan Shehryar Yasin and Deepak Perwani and many others would take part in the festival. An elite panel on national sports heroes, including tennis star Aisam ul Haq Qureshi, women’s cricket team captain Sana Mir, cricket legend Younis Khan, would also share their experiences.