[Crosstalk] Crosstalk: Instructional Mathlets and Cross-Departmental Collaboration Apr. 23 (Fri.) 2:30- 4pm

[Toru Iiyoshi]

Dear Colleagues,

Please come and join our next Crosstalk session (a week from today):


"Promoting the Use of Instructional Mathlets Across the Curriculum"

Friday, April 23, 2:30 - 4:00pm, Rm. 26-152 (TEAL Classroom).

Prof. Haynes Miller (Mathematics), Prof. Karen Willcox (Aeronautics &
Astronautics), Dr. Peter Dourmaskin (Physics), and Prof. Franz Hover
(Mechanical Engineering)

Summary:

In this Crosstalk panel session, a group of faculty members from four
different departments will share how they have collaboratively developed and
used special-purpose interactive Mathlets to help students deepen their
understanding of critical Mathematical concepts.  Some implications for
advancing technology-enabled, cross-departmental pedagogical innovation will
also be discussed.

Building on work done under a d'Arbeloff grant for use in Mathematics
classes, this technology enhances both visual and technical understanding of
subjects including nonlinear autonomous systems, the convolution integral,
RLC circuits, Nyquist plots, and stability of numerical integration schemes.

More about Mathlets:

http://keep.mit.edu/toolkit/html/snapshot.php?id=74823297909296
http://oeit.mit.edu/gallery/projects/mathlets


Hope to see many of you there.  There will be pastries and coffee!

All the best,
Toru

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Toru Iiyoshi, Ph.D.

Senior Strategist
Office of Educational Innovation and Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
http://oeit.mit.edu/about/staff/toru-iiyoshi
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