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SUMMARY:Playful Practice: Designing the Future of Teacher Learning
DESCRIPTION:Justin Reich\, director of the MIT Teaching Systems Lab and Assistant Professor in Comparative Media Studies/Writing\nAll across the world\, educational systems are exploring new ways to encourage more ambitious teaching and learning in classrooms: shifting away from recitation and rote learning to more engaging forms of collaborative\, active\, problem-centered learning. For this shift in classrooms to occur\, we need to dramatically increase the quantity and quality of learning opportunities available to educators in these systems\, and new forms of blended and online learning experiences will be central to this growth. One crucial element in teacher learning is practice. For most teachers\, opportunities for low-stakes\, deliberate practice is quite limited–teachers either learn theory in graduate school of education seminar rooms or test ideas in real classrooms\, with real students\, with real and immediate learning needs. At the MIT Teaching Systems Lab\, we are developing new forms of teacher practice spaces\, technology platforms inspired by games and simulations that provide the opportunity for teachers to rehearse for and reflect on important decisions in teaching. In this participatory session\, we’ll play samples of some of the practice spaces that we are developing\, and discuss the theoretical foundations of our vision for the future of teacher learning. \nJustin Reich is the director of the MIT Teaching Systems Lab\, an Assistant Professor in the Comparative Media Studies/Writing department\, and a Faculty Associate of the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society. As a learning scientist\, he investigates the complex\, technology-rich classrooms of the future and the systems we need to prepare educators to thrive in those environments.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/justin-reich-future-teacher-learning-playful-practice/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Engineering Virality: BuzzFeed's Scientific Approach To Creating Content
DESCRIPTION:Walter Menendez\,  Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer at BuzzFeed\nIf you’ve heard of BuzzFeed\, you probably think about our famous articles and quizzes\, such as The Dress and Which State Are You Actually From?\, as well as our video escapades\, such as The Try Guys Try Sexy Halloween Costumes and our famous Watermelon Explosion experiment on Facebook Live. The success of our content might seem accidental\, but as a result of BuzzFeed’s experimental approach to producing content\, the virality of these posts is actually a very scientific and calculated effort. This talk will detail how BuzzFeed thinks about and creates content\, highlighting our paradigms for the function and role of our content. We’ll also discuss the software stack that supports this experimental loop\, as BuzzFeed also employs a variety of technologies to build an analytics layer. Included in that tech discussion will also be an overview of the metrics and signals BuzzFeed is interested in once content is live. Along the way\, we’ll highlight some of the Comparative Media Studies learnings Walter employs on a daily basis to thrive in the BuzzFeed content ecosystem. \nWalter Menendez is a Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer at BuzzFeed\, based in New York. He is an MIT alum of the class of 2015\, having majored in Computer Science and Engineering (Course 6-3). While at MIT\, he concentrated in Comparative Media Studies\, as well as having done undergraduate research in various Media Lab groups (Fluid Interfaces\, Laboratory for Social Machines). At BuzzFeed\, he is responsible for the development and maintanence of all of BuzzFeed’s data collection\, from on-site impression collection to data warehousing solutions\, empowering the analytical approach that BuzzFeed uses for the content creation cycle.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/walter-menendez-engineering-virality-buzzfeed/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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