[Crosstalk] CrossTalk Expands to Hosting a Brown Bag Lunchtime Seminar - Topic: VISUALIZATION IN SCIENCE AND EDUCATION @ MIT, Monday July 16th at noon in 3-133

[Phillip Long]

Summer Greetings!  CrossTalk, the discussion series about core issues  
at the intersection of teaching, learning and technology invites you  
to a lunchtime Brown Bag Seminar (aka bring your own food if you're  
interested in eating with us) on Visualization in Science. and  
Education at MIT.  One of our own, Violeta Ivanova, (OEIT) attended  
the Gordon Conference on Visualization in Science and Education held  
this past June in Rhode Island, USA.  Come to hear here report on the  
proceedings and join in a spirited conversation about the uses of  
visualization in science instruction.

CROSSTALK is brought to you by the Office of Educational Innovation  
and Technology (OEIT).

Regards,
		phil

Details Follow:

WHAT: VISUALIZATION IN SCIENCE AND EDUCATION @ MIT
Enhancing the MIT core science curriculum through computer  
visualizations and simulations.
A "Brown bag" lunch seminar (beverages provided)

WHEN:	 Monday, July 16
	      	12 noon - 1:30 pm
WHERE: Room 3-133

Program Details:

SHOW & TELL
Interactive report by Violeta Ivanova, OEIT.

Learning from the 2007 conference on Visualization in Science and  
Education (see description below).

SHOW vs. TELL
Discussion moderated by John Belcher, Physics, and V. Ivanova.

The good, the bad, and the ugly of educational visualizations &  
simulations. Which visual images work, which do not, and why? What is  
too complex and what is too simple? What do we want and what do we need?

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Seeing the Data … and Beyond: Visualization in Science and Education

The Gordon Conference on "Visualization in Science and Education"  
provides a forum for the critical examination of the uses of visual  
images in the physical and biological sciences and in mathematics, of  
the tools used to create these images, and of their effectiveness in  
conveying scientific information to specialist and novice audiences.  
As such, the Conference is multidisciplinary, bringing together  
physical and biological scientists who use visualizations for  
research, science educators who create visualizations for classroom  
use and who test their effectiveness, graphics specialists who create  
visualizations to advance the frontiers of science and mathematics,  
and cognitive scientists whose understanding of human perception and  
cognition guides the research and educational application of  
visualizations and, in turn, is informed by the results of such  
applications.


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