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Hello TUX!
A reminder that tomorrow we will have a member presentation by Prof. Jim
Slotta. The details of the talk are below. *Please note that his talk
will be at the Bahen Centre at U of T, room 5166 on the 5th floor*. Some
other important announcements:
1)Our website is live at: http://www.tux-hci.org/ <http://www.tux-hci.org/>
2)We have set up a Google Calendar that you can import into your email
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that you can view its events. For example, in Outlook right click “My
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the above URL.
We look forward to seeing you tomorrow!
Ali, Daniel, and Tovi
Tuesday, December 8 at 12:30pm, Tux Proudly Presents: Prof. Jim Slotta
*Bahen Centre ***room 5166, *University of Toronto @ **40 St. George St*
<https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Bahen+Centre+for+Information+Technology/@4…>*.*
Lunch reception begins at 12:30pm. Presentation begins at 1pm.
*Jim Slotta:
Knowledge Construction in the Instrumented Classroom: Supporting Student
Investigations of Their Physical Learning Environment*
*Abstract*
There is a long tradition among educators to situate learning within a
physical orientation in the classroom, through the use of stations
(e.g., in elementary classrooms), value lines (i.e., where students are
asked to stand in a location that corresponds to their opinion or other
value), or even small groups working on specific themes at different
table locations. These longstanding examples have served as a persistent
reminder that the physical space of the classroom can be used in
pedagogically meaningful ways.
A new genre of networked technologies is emerging that can track
location and identity, or capture a variety of sensor information. These
have opened the doors to new ways of leveraging the physical environment
for purposes of learning, creating a new set of interactions with which
learners can engage. This talk will present a set of coherent projects
that have pushed the boundaries of such applications, instrumenting
students and their physical environment to provide students with a
learning experience tailored to their location or pedagogical context.
These studies are part of the EPIC (Embedded Phenomena for Inquiry
Communities) project, a collaboration between Professor Jim Slotta’s
research group at the University of Toronto and Professor Tom Moher’s
team at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The emphasis of our work
is on science inquiry, with a particular interest in collective forms of
progress, where students work autonomously within a larger “whole class”
context, aggregating their observations or evidence to advance the
understanding or progress within the overall community.
*Bio*
James D. Slotta is an Associate Professor of Education at The University
of Toronto, where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Education and
Technology. Since 2005, he has directed the ENCORE lab – a team of
students, designers and developers who investigate new models of
collaborative and collective inquiry in K-12 science. His research
studies are situated in smart classrooms and distributed learning
environments, featuring user-contributed content, aggregated and
emergent forms of knowledge, and a variety of scaffolds for the
orchestration of individual, small group, and whole class activities.
Current research is concerned with collective epistemology, immersive
simulations, knowledge building, learning across contexts, and tangible
and embodied forms of learning. He maintains international
collaborations with scholars from Norway, the United States, Germany and
China. Recently, he has begun a program of research in the design and
development of a tablet-based scaffolding environment for community
health workers in South Africa.
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*University of Toronto Department of Computer Science, and MaRS*.
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