Content tagged "education"
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Event: Thursday, September 7, 2017 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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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Posted by Elise Chen
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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Posted by Scot Osterweil, Carole Urbano, Philip Tan, Rik Eberhardt and Kyrie Eleison Caldwell
“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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Event: Monday, January 9, 2017 - Friday, January 27, 2017
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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Posted by Suzanne Lane and Andreas Karatsolis
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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Posted by Karen Schrier S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2005
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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Posted by Christina Couch S.M., Science Writing, 2015
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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Event: Thursday, March 3, 2016 @ 5:00 pm
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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Event: Thursday, November 19, 2015 @ 5:00 pm
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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Posted by Eric Klopfer, Louisa Rosenheck and Philip Tan
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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Posted by Edward Schiappa
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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Event: Monday, February 23, 2015 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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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Event: Thursday, January 29, 2015 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
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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Posted by CMS/W
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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Posted by Dave Custer
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.”