[Asis-l] "Mindstuff: Educational Technology Beyond the Computer" Talk - 1 2/2 2:00pm

[Rose, Anne]

Hi All,

Dr. Michael Eisenberg from the University of Colorado-Boulder's Institute for
Cognitive Science will be the final guest speaker in the HCIL Fall Seminar
Series.  

His talk,  "Mindstuff:  Educational Technology Beyond the Computer" will take
place next Tuesday, December 2  at 2:00pm in room 2120 of the Computer Science
Instructional Center (CSIC) on campus.

We hope you can join us for this free talk.  No registration is needed.

Thank you for helping to make the HCIL Fall Seminar Series a success!

-Anne

Michael Eisenberg: "Mindstuff: Educational Technology Beyond the Computer" 
Educational computing has a (partially deserved) reputation of "virtualizing"
children's lives--of distancing children from experience with the physical
world. This talk, in contrast, will describe a variety of novel ways in which
computational media can be combined with all sorts of physical materials to
enhance the practice of both traditional and non-traditional educational crafts.
The talk will describe a variety of projects in our Craft Technologies Group at
the University of Colorado. In these projects, we attempt to design
educationally rich activities that blend together new types of computational
media, output devices, and physical stuff.
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