List members in the vicinity of Boston this weekend will certainly want
to know about this conference. I went to one of these last semester
and found it both entertaining and enormously educational. Apologies
to those who get this twice.
Stephen B.
>Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 10:13:25 -0500
>From: Brad Seawell <<[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: We Wired the Classroom, Now What? conference at MIT, Feb. 3
> and 4
> EVENT NOTICE We Wired the Classroom, Now What? To Be
Answered at MIT Conference on Feb. 3 and 4 Cambridge, MA. --
Elementary, secondary and college educators, education students and
technology specialists from around New England will converge on the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the weekend of Feb. 3 and 4 to
consider the impact of new media on learning and teaching and to
provide some answers to the question, We ve Wired the Classroom, Now
What? Keynote speakers will be Christopher Dede, Harvard Graduate
School of Education (Emerging Models of Learning); Bonnie Bracey,
George Lucas Foundation, Washington (Media Literacy); Henry Jenkins,
director, MIT Program in Comparative Media Studies (Student-Produced
Media); and Brian Smith, MIT Media Laboratory (Technology Coordination
and Resource Management). Additional speakers ranging from
grade-school teachers to school district technology officers will
present a wide variety of teaching strategies and technology
demonstrations they have used to successfully incorporate new media
into the classroom (or field trip). Some speakers will show new-media
projects made by students, and the Saturday afternoon program ends with
a screening of student-made media. Conference registration, the full
conference agenda, speaker biographies, and descriptions of
presentations are available on the conference Web site at
<<"http://media-in-transition.mit.edu/classroom"
eudora="autourl">http://media-in-transition.mit.edu/classroomThe
conference takes place in the Tang Center, Building E51, on the MIT
campus. The conference is free and open to the public, and continental
breakfasts and bag lunches will be provided. The We Wired the
Classroom, Now What? conference is sponsored by MIT
Comparative Media Studies and MIT Communications Forum. The MIT
Communications Forum is the outreach arm of the Comparative Media
Studies program. For more information, please contact Program
Director Henry Jenkins at 617-253-3068 (email at [log in to unmask]) or
Program Coordinator Brad Seawell at 617-253-3521 (email at
[log in to unmask]).
>
Stephen Brophy - Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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