Content tagged "education"
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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.
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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.
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CMS Alumni Panel
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.
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EdTechX: Our Online Courses on EdX
“Design and Development of Educational Technology and Introduction to Game Design validated that project-based collaborative instruction can succeed in the virtual world.”
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In Medias Res, Spring 2015
“As this issue of In Medias Res testifies, however, the challenging weather has not slowed the pace of activities of the denizens of CMS/W!”
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Gonzalo Frasca: “Play, Videogames and Education Reform”
okidOkO’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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Responding to Student Writing: Best Practices from the Research
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.
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T.L. Taylor’s slides from the CMS graduate program infosession
In case you missed one of our two on-campus information sessions this fall, CMS graduate program director T.L. Taylor has shared her slides.
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Production of Educational Videos: MIT’s Experimental Study Group Premiers New Subject, CMS.333/ES.333
Experimental Study Group staff members Graham Ramsay and Dave Custer launched a new subject, “Production of Educational Videos: Skills for Communicating Academic and Professional Content.”
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Registration now open for EdTechX: A series of online courses in educational technology
MIT’s Education Arcade and Scheller Teacher Education Program are launching EdTechX, a series of six-week long MITx online courses on EdX.
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Better the Data You Know: Developing Youth Data Literacy in Schools and Informal Learning Environments
We need to support the public — especially youth — in developing data literacy, so that they are equipped to think critically and ethically about data.
