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Revolutionary New Technology + Old Teaching Methods = ?
In a recent post on her blog, Duke's Cathy Davidson responds to a New York Times article on the increasing popularity of iPads in schools, arguing that iPads, or any technology, aren't a panacea for education. To support her point, Davidson tells the story of how, when she was a Vice Provost at Duke, she helped create a more
Designing Learning From "End to End"
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When Tim Berners-Lee and a handful of colleagues began developing the World Wide Web, they did so without a blueprint but with something better: a principle. What if all the world’s knowledge could easily be transferred between us without going through a central node controlling the shape of that information? What if my computer could abide by certain kinds of communication protocols, could send out packets of information, and then any other computer… more
Identity, Avatars, Virtual Life - and Advancing Social Equity in the ‘Real’ World
This semester, MIT professor Fox Harrell is teaching an ambitious new course on “Identity Representation” that includes studying identities adopted in computer games and social network sites. In the course description posted online, Harrell explains that he is more broadly interested in getting students to “look at how humans express multiple identities for different purposes both in the real world and online.” As the first researcher both in MIT… more
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