A new world of computational tangibles for education: new designs for the classroom of the 21st century
Cancelled
Event details
| Date | 18.09.2013 |
| Hour | 10:15 › 11:00 |
| Speaker | Paulo Blikstein, Assistant Professor of Education and (by courtesy) Computer Sciences, Stanford University |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
There is a renaissance in the field of educational technologies. MOOCs, video-based learning, and mobile apps have captured the hearts and minds of policy makers and educators. Unfortunately, much of these new technologies are ignoring one of the most well-researched topics in education: the need for tangibility, discovery, inquiry, and “making.” At the Transformative Learning Technologies Lab, we are creating many new technologies to promote hands-on learning both on small and large scales. In this talk, I will present empirical results from our research, demonstrating the need for hands-on, discovery-based learning, and a series of new technological designs: “LightUp,” an electronics toolkit with circuit simulation and augmented reality; “Cloud Experimentation,” which is a technology for hands-on experiments for MOOCs; “HapKit,” a low-cost haptics kit for large scale courses, and the “PiTopping,” a new robotics system based on the Raspberry Pi platform.
Practical information
- Informed public
- Free
- This event is internal
Organizer
- CHILI lab