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SUMMARY:From Augmented to Virtual Learning: Affordances of Different Mixes of Reality for Learning
DESCRIPTION:Professor Eric Klopfer\, Director of the Scheller Teacher Education Program and The Education Arcade\nMixed realities that combine digital and real experiences are now becoming a true reality.  These experiences are being delivered over smartphones as well as increasingly accessible and practical head mounted displays. This ubiquity of devices is in turn making mixed reality the next digital frontier in entertainment\, education and the workplace. But what do we know about where these technologies have value? Where do they add to the learning experience? And what theories and evidence can we generate and build upon to provide a foundation for using these technologies productively for learning? \nWe have been working on mixed realities in education for over a decade and have started to learn about where\, when and for whom they can add value. Part of this understanding stems from differentiating the wide variety of mixed realities and focusing on affordances. Landscape based augmented realities\, popularized by Pokemon Go\, have fundamentally different affordances than smartphone based virtual realities like Google Cardboard\, which in turn are different than immersive experiences delivered by headsets like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.  The core of our work has been doing research and development to identify these affordances that match with key learning challenges\, particular in Science\, Technology\, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). In this talk\, Eric Klopfer will draw upon our work in location-based augmented reality games\, as well as work in virtual reality. In the realm of augmented reality\, he will discuss a long series of design experiments through which we have learned about where these technologies play an important role in learning\, primarily around socio-scientific issues. In the space of virtual reality our newest designs and experiments focus on the concept of scale\, and how we can use virtual realities to teach about STEM systems at radically different scales. This talk will provide a history and overview of these experiences\, including iterations of design research experiments. \nEric Klopfer is Professor and Director of the Scheller Teacher Education Program and The Education Arcade at MIT. Klopfer’s research focuses on the development and use of computer games and simulations for building understanding of science\, technology\, engineering and mathematics.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/eric-klopfer-augmented-virtual-learning/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:ICTs for Refugees and Displaced Persons
DESCRIPTION:Carleen Maitland\, co-Director of the Institute for Information Policy and Associate Professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State University\nExpanding use of information and communication technology (ICT) together with the humanitarian reform agenda are changing both the experience of being a refugee as well as humanitarian response. These forces are giving rise to the digital refugee and a new form of humanitarian operations\, digital humanitarian brokerage. In this talk\, Carleen Maitland presents these two concepts\, evidence of their emergence and differences in the role information plays in each. The concepts emerge from a synthesis of scholarship from international law\, information and organization science\, GIS\, computer and data science as presented in her upcoming edited volume Digital Lifeline? ICTs for Refugees and Displaced Persons. The talk culminates in an analysis of the implications of these trends for information policy as well as the research necessary to insure both technologies and policies evolve to mitigate potential harms and amplify potential benefits for refugees. \nCarleen Maitland is co-Director of the Institute for Information Policy and Associate Professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State University. Her expertise includes analyses of ICT use in international organizations\, particularly those involved in fostering economic and social development as well as humanitarian relief. Her work\, reported in over 100 refereed journal articles\, conference proceedings\, and presentations\, has influenced scholarship in the fields of Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICTD)\, communications\, information systems and human computer interaction fields. Her work is supported by the National Science Foundation\, USAID\, the U.S. Department of Commerce\, and IBM\, among others. She has held several leadership positions in both the ICTD and policy communities\, currently serves as Associate Editor of the open access journal Information Technology & International Development (USC Annenberg Press). Also\, from 2010-2012 she served as a Program Manager in the U.S. National Science Foundation\, both in the Office of International Science and Engineering and the Office of Cyberinfrastructure.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/icts-refugees-displaced-persons/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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