The Writing and Communications Center will offer free consultation on oral presentations and any writing problem.
In 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.
On Oct. 10, John Palfrey and Ethan Zuckerman discuss whether those born digital likely to have different notions of privacy, community, identity itself.
Participants 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.
okidOkO's Gonzalo Frasca shows us how we should create games that are both useful and effective inside and outside the classroom.
On 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.
What 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.
The Writing and Communication Center is open throughout IAP. You must be registered with our online scheduler: https://mit.mywconline.com.
In 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.
How do we, as instructors value facts? How do we, or might we, make this valuing explicit in our teaching?
If 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!
In 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.
Eric 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?
Professor 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.
Prof. Marina Bers will describe current research on a pedagogical approach for early childhood computer science education called “Coding as Another Language”.