Individual Consultations at the Writing and Communication Center
The Writing and Communications Center will offer free consultation on oral presentations and any writing problem.
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MIT Building 12, Room 132 60 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA, United States
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MOOCs and the Emerging Digital Classroom
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesIn this Communications Forum, Anant Argawal, Alison Byerly, and Daphne Koller look at how digital technologies are transforming teaching and learning both on and off campus.
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Born Digital
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesOn Oct. 10, John Palfrey and Ethan Zuckerman discuss whether those born digital likely to have different notions of privacy, community, identity itself.
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Responding to Student Writing: Best Practices from the Research
MIT Building E39, Room 335 290 Main Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesParticipants will learn to provide the kinds of comments and strategies that will help students understand how to improve both their specific texts and their abilities as writers.
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Gonzalo Frasca: “Play, Videogames and Education Reform”
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 141 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesokidOkO's Gonzalo Frasca shows us how we should create games that are both useful and effective inside and outside the classroom.
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CMS Alumni Panel
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MA, United StatesOn the heels of the day's graduate program information session, join us for our annual colloquium featuring five alumni of CMS, discussing their lives from MIT to their careers today.
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Excellence in Teaching
MIT Building 3, Room 270 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear), Cambridge, MA, United StatesWhat separates a good teacher from a great one? Former poet laureate Robert Pinsky, Weisskopf Professor of Physics Alan Guth and MIT biology professor Hazel Sive--all honored teachers--will explore these issues with Literature professor and Communications Forum director emeritus David Thorburn.
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IAP 2017: Individual Consultations at the Writing and Communication Center
Writing and Communication Center (MIT Building E18, Room 233) 50 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThe Writing and Communication Center is open throughout IAP. You must be registered with our online scheduler: https://mit.mywconline.com.
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Playful Practice: Designing the Future of Teacher Learning
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesIn this participatory session, play samples of some of the practice spaces that Justin Reich's team is developing and discuss the theoretical foundations of their vision for the future of teacher learning.
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The Matter of Facts
MIT Building 1, Room 242 33 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, United StatesHow do we, as instructors value facts? How do we, or might we, make this valuing explicit in our teaching?
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Ed Tech Mini Design Studio
MIT Building 2, Room 143 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, United StatesIf you have an ed tech project you are working on and would like to get feedback or take it to the next level, this mini design studio is for you!
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Workshop on Academic Argument
MIT Building 4, Room 253 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MA, United StatesIn one 2-hour workshop addressed to the MIT community (faculty, TAs and grad students especially welcome) we propose to explore written argument across several academic disciplines.
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From Augmented to Virtual Learning: Affordances of Different Mixes of Reality for Learning
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesEric Klopfer asks, what theories and evidence can we generate and build upon to provide a foundation for using augmented and virtual reality technologies productively for learning?
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Christopher Weaver, “Amplius Ludo, Beyond the Horizon”
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesProfessor Christopher Weaver, Founder of Bethesda Softworks, will discuss how games work and why they are such potent tools in areas as disparate as military simulation, childhood education, and medicine.
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Marina Bers, “Coding in Early Childhood: Storytelling or Puzzle Solving?”
MIT Building E15, Room 318 (Common Area) 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesProf. Marina Bers will describe current research on a pedagogical approach for early childhood computer science education called “Coding as Another Language”.