Content tagged "education"
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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.
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Increasing Equity through Educational Technology
Justin Reich looks to transform educational settings by equipping teachers with the technology tools they need to best serve all students.
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“I Just Don’t Know Where to Begin”: Designing to Facilitate the Educational Use of Commercial, Off-the-Shelf Video Games
Documenting the implementation of commercial, off-the-shelf games in their secondary level, humanities (e.g. social studies, history, languages) classrooms.
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IAP 2017: Individual Consultations at the Writing and Communication Center
The Writing and Communication Center is open throughout IAP. You must be registered with our online scheduler: https://mit.mywconline.com.
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Engineering Innovation Through Rhetorical Invention
A “What-How-Why” diagram integrates the thinking that chemical engineers need to cover as they design the work of a project, with the thinking that they need to do in order to communicate that work to an audience.
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Knowledge Games: How Playing Games Can Solve Problems, Create Insight, and Make Change
Schrier argues that knowledge games are potentially powerful because of their ability to motivate a crowd of problem solvers within a dynamic system while also tapping into the innovative data processing and computational abilities of games.
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Video, podcast, and summary: “Excellence in Teaching”
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.
