Content tagged "education"
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Special Subject, Spring 2021: “The Politics of Care and Empathy”
We’re pleased to announce a new special subject offering! For the upcoming Spring 2021 semester, Visiting Professor Eric Gordon is teaching “The Politics of Care and Empathy”.
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Scaling up behavioral science interventions in online education
“Adequately supporting diverse students will require more than a light-touch intervention.”
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Justin Reich’s thread: “The #1 question is ‘how will you support your most struggling students?’”
“A growing body of evidence suggests that online learning works least well for our most vulnerable learners.”
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Podcast and video: Marina Bers, “Coding in Early Childhood: Storytelling or Puzzle Solving?”
Bers describes current research on a pedagogical approach for early childhood computer science education called “Coding as Another Language”.
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Marina Bers, “Coding in Early Childhood: Storytelling or Puzzle Solving?”
Prof. Marina Bers will describe current research on a pedagogical approach for early childhood computer science education called “Coding as Another Language”.
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Podcast: Eric Klopfer, “Design Based Research on Participatory Simulations”
CMS/W Professor Eric Klopfer and The Education Arcade are currently working on a set of “Participatory Simulations”: mobile collaborative systems-based games.
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Christopher Weaver, “Amplius Ludo, Beyond the Horizon”
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.
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Podcast: Eric Klopfer, “From Augmented to Virtual Learning: Affordances of Different Mixes of Reality for Learning”
What theories and evidence can we generate and build upon to provide a foundation for using mixed reality technologies productively for learning?
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From Augmented to Virtual Learning: Affordances of Different Mixes of Reality for Learning
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?
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Workshop on Academic Argument
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.
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Ed Tech Mini Design Studio
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!
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The Matter of Facts
How do we, as instructors value facts? How do we, or might we, make this valuing explicit in our teaching?
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Fun and Games in Educational Technology
Eric Klopfer recently switched his appointment to Comparative Media Studies/Writing. With its longstanding games studies program, he sees it as well aligned with his academic goals.
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Podcast: Justin Reich, “Playful Practice: Designing the Future of Teacher Learning”
As a learning scientist, Justin Reich investigates the complex, technology-rich classrooms of the future and the systems we need to prepare educators to thrive in those environments.
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Playful Practice: Designing the Future of Teacher Learning
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.
