[bioundgrd] FW: IAP and Spring 2022 Exploratory Seminar at Edgerton Center

[Joshua Stone]

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From: Elizabeth Cavicchi <ecavicch at mit.edu<mailto:ecavicch at mit.edu>>
Subject: IAP and Spring 2022 Exploratory Seminar at Edgerton Center
Date: December 5, 2021 at 6:48:54 PM EST


I appreciate your assistance in distributing among your students and student lists, the course description below with links to a beautiful student-designed posters, of this exploratory seminar, offered through the Edgerton Center for IAP 2022 and Spring 2022
with appreciation,
Elizabeth Cavicchi,
Instructor, Edgerton Center
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MIT Edgerton Center IAP 2022
EC.050/EC.090 (G)
Re-create Experiments from History: Inform the Future from the Past
Monday Wednesday Friday, 1pm-5pm plus times TBA.  First session Jan. 3, 2022
Create and re-create experiments fueled by your own questions and curiosities.
       Discover your interests in dialogue with historical figures and indigenous experience.
       Explore hands-on.
       Listen to voices of others, now and in the past.   Examine injustice.
       Build community that is relational.  Encourage each other’s curiosity, vulnerability and growth.
Your own story uncovers insights for educational research.
Past projects: following shadows; watching the sky; historical instruments; reenacting historical and feminist drama,; art using historical methods; making educational or high speed videos; collaborative experiments; presentations; MIT History…
Whatever your interests, this is a place to explore them.
Contact: Elizabeth Cavicchi ecavicch at mit.edu<mailto:ecavicch at mit.edu>
Poster Link https://bit.ly/IAP2022EC050Poster

MIT Edgerton Center Spring 2022
EC.050/EC.090 (G)
Re-create Experiments from History: Inform the Future from the Past
Tuesday Thursday 3pm-5pm. First session January 31, 2022
Wonder. Question. Explore. Collaborate. Reflect.
This hands-on seminar opens space and time to explore your own curiosity.
Discover evidences of motion, change, springtime.
Collaborate in experimenting with everyday materials, instruments and methods of science and art, from history and indigenous practices.  Listen to past voices: Euclid, Galileo, Ibn al-Haytham, da Vinci, Banneker, Dewey, Janaki Ammal, poets, artists and others.  Examine injustice.  Build a learning community with classmates. Encourage each other’s curiosity.   Museum visits and field trips. Past projects include: watching the sky; following shadows; art projects with historical methods; using and making historical instruments; making educational videos; collaborative experiments; presentations; enacting historical and feminist drama; MIT History…  What will you notice and question, explore and express? Your own story uncovers insights for educational research.
Contact: Elizabeth Cavicchi ecavicch at mit.edu<mailto:ecavicch at mit.edu>
Poster link https://bit.ly/Spring2022EC050Poster


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Elizabeth Cavicchi
Instructor
(she/her/hers)
MIT Edgerton Center

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MIT is located on the traditional, unceded territory of the Wampanoag Nation.
I acknowledge the painful history of genocide and forced removal from this territory,
and honor and respect the diverse indigenous people who continue to call this area home.




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