[Crosstalk] xTalks: Sanjoy Mahajan 1:30 tomorrow; David Mindell next week

[Molly Ruggles]

Good day,

We want you to remind you of some upcoming xTalks:

Tomorrow, Thurs Feb 27 @ 1:30 pm Sanjoy Mahajan will be present on pedagogical innovations in STEM education (details below). 
Wednesday March 5 @ 3 pm, David Mindell will be present on the history of ed tech in the age of film (details below).

Please join us for these exciting events. Refreshments will be provided.

Sanjoy Mahajan – Teaching Modes of Reasoning: Redesigning “The Art of Approximation in Science and Engineering” Course Around Transferable Ways of Thinking
Thursday, February 27, 2014 @ 1:30-2:30 pm, Koch Institute Auditorium, 76-156
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.

David Mindell – Technology and Education in the Age of Film
Wednesday, March 5 @ 3:00-4:00 pm, Bush Room (10-105) Please note new date!
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.

For more information please visit odl.mit.edu/events

Thanks,
Molly Ruggles


Molly Ruggles
Senior Educational Technology Consultant
ruggles at mit.edu | 617-324-9185
OEIT  |  ODL  |  MIT
   




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