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SUMMARY:A new world of computational tangibles for education: new designs 
 for the classroom of the 21st century
DTSTART:20130918T101500
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Paulo Blikstein\, Assistant Professor of Education and (by cou
 rtesy) Computer Sciences\, Stanford University\nThere 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 educat
 ors. Unfortunately\, much of these new technologies are ignoring one of th
 e most well-researched topics in education: the need for tangibility\, dis
 covery\, inquiry\, and “making.” At the Transformative Learning Techno
 logies Lab\, we are creating many new technologies to promote hands-on lea
 rning both on small and large scales. In this talk\, I will present empiri
 cal results from our research\, demonstrating the need for hands-on\, disc
 overy-based learning\, and a series of new technological designs: “Light
 Up\,” an electronics toolkit with circuit simulation and augmented reali
 ty\; “Cloud Experimentation\,” which is a technology for hands-on expe
 riments for MOOCs\; “HapKit\,” a low-cost haptics kit for large scale 
 courses\, and the “PiTopping\,” a new robotics system based on the Ras
 pberry Pi platform.
LOCATION:BC 410 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20410
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