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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Good day,</div><div><br></div><div>This is to invite you to our spring xTalks. We have an exciting schedule of events. Some sessions explore education’s impact in broader social contexts; some focus on pedagogy. We hope you will join us.</div><div><br></div><div><i><b>J. R. Hildebrand – Energizing STEM Education Through the High Speed World of Motor-sports</b><br>Monday, February 24 @ 12:00-1:00 pm, Bush Room (10-105)<br>In this session we’re taking a slight departure from our traditional approach by featuring a talented race-car driver whom some of you might know. J. R. Hildebrand will talk about his career and about STEM opportunities in racing technology. This session is our first ‘xTalks – Off the Cuff‘ event and will be more informal. Hildebrand will talk about auto racing and its implications for engineering education and how to energize STEM education through high speed motor-sports.<br><br><b>Sanjoy Mahajan </b></i><i><b>–</b></i><i><b> Teaching Modes of Reasoning: Redesigning “The Art of Approximation in Science and Engineering” Course Around Transferable Ways of Thinking</b><br>Thursday, February 27, 2014 @ 1:30-2:30 pm, Koch Institute Auditorium, 76-156<br>In former lives, Sanjy Mahajan was a faculty member in the Physics Department at the University of Cambridge, a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and Associate Director of the Teaching and Learning Laboratory at MIT. He helped found the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in Cape Town, where he was the first Curriculum Director and taught the first courses in physics and computer science. This event is hosted by the HHMI Education Group.<br><br><b>David Mindell – Technology and Education in the Age of Film</b><br>Monday, March 3 @ 3:00-4:00 pm, Bush Room (10-105)<br>This talk traces the history of educational technologies in the age of film, from roughly 1920-1990. It focuses on what became known as the “audiovisual” industry: slides, filmstrips, and sixteen millimeter sound motion pictures. These machines and their materials were introduced into classrooms in the 1920s and draw on larger trends in technology and industry. Educational technologies blossomed during World Who War II and took on new forms during the Cold War. Though the industry disappeared in the 1990s, it provided a foundation for today’s digital technologies and offers instructive perspective on today’s debates. This talk traces a history of the teacher-student-hardware-software nexus that came to characterize instructional settings (in both schools and industry) from the twentieth century to today.</i><div><i><br></i></div><div><i><b>Tom Kochan – A Conversation with the Next Generation: A New Social Compact</b><br>Tuesday, March 18 @ 2:00-3:00 pm, Bush Room (10-105)<br>What can the next generation of Americans do to reverse the declining standards of living they are inheriting from the baby boomers who benefited from the Golden Era of the American economy following WW II? This talk will lay out the challenges and opportunities facing young Americans, with a particular emphasis on education and recent innovations the enable widespread lifelong learning. From pre-school to life-long-learning programs, all institutions of learning need to be active contributors to a new social contact. This includes providing affordable early childhood outreach educational opportunities, working collaboratively to reform elementary and secondary schools, building alliances with employers and labor groups to enhance professional development and lifelong learning, and transforming professional schools to ensure the next generation of leaders has the skills to build and sustain a social compact for the future. We will also discuss what is needed from leaders of other institutions—business, government, and labor—to support efforts to build and sustain a new social compact.</i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div>All events are free, and refreshments will be served. For more information, please visit <a href="http://odl.mit.edu/xtalks">odl.mit.edu/xtalks</a> and <a href="http://odl.mit.edu/events">odl.mit.edu/events</a>.</div><div><br></div></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Molly </div><div><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">Molly Ruggles<br><div>Senior Educational Technology Consultant</div><div><a href="mailto:ruggles@mit.edu">ruggles@mit.edu</a> | 617-324-9185</div></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">OEIT | ODL | MIT</div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><a href="http://oeit.mit.edu"><img src="http://web.mit.edu/ruggles/email%20signature/OEIT-icon.png" alt="OEIT" height="19" width="18"></a> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Office-of-Educational-Innovation-and-Technology/193527290762667"><img src="http://web.mit.edu/ruggles/email%20signature/facebook-icon.png" alt="Facebook" height="18" width="18"></a> <a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/OEIT_MIT"><img src="http://web.mit.edu/ruggles/email%20signature/twitter.png" alt="Twitter" height="18" width="18"></a> <a href="http://oeit.mit.edu/blog"><img src="http://web.mit.edu/ruggles/email%20signature/blog.png" alt="Ed Tech Times" height="18" width="18"></a></div></div><div><br></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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