[Crosstalk] Return of the Crosstalk Seminars in Educational Change

[Phillip Long]

Greetings:
	The new Office of Educational Innovation and Technology is pleased  
to announce a renewal of an informative and stimulating series,  
CrossTalk,  presenting faculty from MIT, and periodically faculty  
from elsewhere, talking about core issues at the intersection of  
teaching, learning and technology.  We will kick of the spring  
discussion with a panel of MIT faculty addressing the topic "Using  
Visualization to Teach Concepts in Science and Engineering", to be  
held Thursday, April 19th, in 5-217 at 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm.  The  
faculty panelists anchoring the discussion are:

	- Professor John Belcher, Professor & Class of 1960 and a MacVicar  
Faculty Fellow at MIT. He has been primarily responsible for the  
development of Techonlogy Enabled Active Learning TEAL. and has  
developed an award winning Java3D visualization engine TEALsim used  
for both the physics visualizations and recently biology.

	- Professor Fredo Durand, Associate Professor an associate professor  
in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at MIT,  
and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence  
Laboratory.

	- Professor Graham Walker, the American Cancer Society Research  
Professor of Biology past HHMI Professor. Prof. Graham has been  
leading efforst to harness protein structure manipulation software  
for teaching in biology.

Abstract of the Session:
Visualizations are fast becoming an essential element in teaching  
science and engineering. Computational tools for creating compelling,  
attractive, and high fidelity represenations of scientific and  
engineering phenonomena are more widely available and becoming easier  
to use. With all the aesthetic appeal that the current generation of  
visualizations bring, the question remains, are they more than just  
'eye candy'- that is, what evidence is there that they improve  
learning? Do they deepen intution about physical processes? What  
principles make for good visualizations? How do you work them into  
the course and plan for their use in assigments? How do you measure  
their impact on student learning?


Please join us for the renewal of a community of colleagues, friends,  
and new acquaintances sharing an interest in innovations in teaching,  
learning and technology.


Where:   5-217
When:    April 19th, 2007
		3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
What:      CrossTalk Discussion - Using Visualization to Teach  
Concepts in Science and Engineering

For further information, see http://web.mit.edu/acs/crosstalk/

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