Content tagged "education"
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Posted by Justin Reich and Jal Mehta
Healing, Community, and Humanity: How Students and Teachers Want to Reinvent Schools Post-COVID
“The students and educators in our study emphasized themes of healing, community, and humanity as key learnings from the pandemic year and essential values to rebuilding schools.”
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Posted by Justin Reich
Scaling up behavioral science interventions in online education
“Adequately supporting diverse students will require more than a light-touch intervention.”
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Posted by CMS/W
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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Posted by Elizabeth Borneman S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2020
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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Event: Thursday, February 27, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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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Posted by Eric Klopfer, Elizabeth Borneman and Andrew Whitacre
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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Event: Thursday, September 12, 2019 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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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Posted by Libby Falck S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2019
Topics: civics, education, game design, learning, Libby Falck, WisconsinPlay for Change: Educational Game Design for Grassroots Organizing
We need some of those interventions to come in the form of games, not necessarily because they are fun but because they contain crucial elements that are missing from the civic technologies that support engagement today.
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Posted by Eric Klopfer, Andrew Whitacre and Vicky Zeamer
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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Event: Thursday, February 8, 2018 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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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Event: Thursday, February 1, 2018 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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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Event: Thursday, January 25, 2018 - Thursday, February 1, 2018
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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Event: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
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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Posted by Elise Chen
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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Posted by Elise Chen and Justin Reich
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.