BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies - ECPv5.16.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://cms.mit.edu
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/New_York
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20110313T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20111106T060000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20111103T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20111103T190000
DTSTAMP:20260411T070823
CREATED:20131114T174706Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20131114T174706Z
UID:6879-1320339600-1320346800@cms.mit.edu
SUMMARY:Marina Bers\, "The Design of Digital Experiences for Positive Youth Development"
DESCRIPTION:Marina Bers\nThis talk will focus on digital spaces to support positive youth development. \nAs the design of our digital landscape is increasingly guided by commercial purposes and not by developmental concerns\, there is a sense of urgency for developing strategies and educational programs that promote positive development by taking into consideration the children’s social\, emotional\, cognitive\, physical\, civic and spiritual needs. But we should also consider the unique design features of each technology and the practices and policies that shape different interactions in the digital landscape. Although this talk will focus on new technologies\, it is inspired by an old question: “How should we live?” This talk will present an approach to help children gain the technological literacies of the 21st century while developing a sense of identity\, values and purpose. Too often youth’s experiences with technology are framed in negative terms. This talk acknowledges problems and risks\, and takes an interventionist perspective. Based on over a decade and a half of research\, this talk provides a theoretical framework for guiding the implementation of experiences that take advantage of new technologies to support learning and personal development\, as well as examples from concrete experiences. These engage children in playful learning by supporting digital content creation\, creativity\, choices of conduct\, communication\, collaboration and community building.  These are the six C’s proposed by the Positive Technological Development framework. They can guide the design and the evaluation of digital experiences from early childhood to adolescence\, and offer a possible path to help children out of the playpens into the playgrounds of this technological era. \nMarina Umaschi Bers\, Ph.D.\, is an associate professor at the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development and the Computer Science Department at Tufts University. She heads the interdisciplinary Developmental Technologies research group. Her research involves the design and study of innovative learning technologies to promote positive youth development. Dr. Bers received prestigious awards such as the 2005 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)\, a five year National Science Foundation Young Investigator’s Career Award and the American Educational Research Association’s Jan Hawkins Award. Over the past decade and a half\, Dr. Bers has conceived\, designed and evaluated diverse technological tools ranging from robotics to virtual worlds in after-school programs\, museums\, hospitals\, and schools both in the U.S. and abroad. Dr. Bers has received several NSF grants and is active in publishing her research in academic journals. Her book Blocks to Robots: Learning with Technology in the Early Childhood Classroom was published in 2008 by Teacher’s College Press. Most recently\, Dr. Bers wrote The Design of Digital Experiences for Positive Youth Development: Out of the playpen into the playground\, to be published by Oxford University in early 2012. Dr. Bers is from Argentina. In 1994 she came to the U.S. and received a Master’s degree in Educational Media from Boston University and a Master of Science and Ph.D. from the MIT Media Laboratory. \nMore on Dr. Bers
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/marina-bers-design-digital-experiences-positive-youth-development/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/bers.gif
ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR