In this issue . . . .
* New ECT Student Welcome and Orientation
* ECT Students & Faculty Invited to ALT Department Party
* ECT Master of Arts Colloquium
* Steinhardt IRB Review Session
* G4LI -- Games For Learning Institute Speakers
New ECT Student Welcome and Orientation
Thursday, April 30, 2009 - 4: 00 to 6: 00 pm
East Building, Third Floor, Room 319
239 Greene Street
(between W. 4th Street & Washington Place)
ECT Students & Faculty Invited to ALT Department Party
Attention all ALT Students and Faculty!
The end of the school year, and for some, end of our school career is upon us!
Come eat, drink and be merry at Murphy and Gonzalez one last time!
Thursday, April 30th 6:30-9:30 PM
21 Waverly Place
(at Waverly Place and Greene Street)
Run into some of your classmates you won't see for awhile . . . Make some new friends, connections and perhaps Network!
FREE Appetizers! FREE Conversation! FREE Good Time!!
Be there . . . . brought to you by your ALT Department Reps!
ECT Master of Arts Colloquium
Friday, May 8, 2009
East Building, 239 Greene Street, Room 319
A Presentation of ECT Thesis Projects by Spring 2009 Master of Arts Graduates
Educational Video, Multimedia, Websites, Literature Reviews & Research Studies
11:00am to 12:30pm
Laura Ciporen
Train Accident: An Ideal Gas Laws Adventure Game
Thomas Rossini
Virtual Interactive Videos for Immersion and Discovery
Nadalene Tempelman-Kluit
Finding Articles Using Library Interfaces: Towards a User-Centered Approach to Design
1:15 pm to 3:00 pm
Remberto Jimenez
How Social Constructivism Informs the Design of Wiki Platforms for Knowledge Construction in the Classroom
Lisa Washington
My Pace Learning: Customizable Multimedia Learning Module
Jeannie Crowley & Dorene Zjawinski
Balance of Power: A Civics Education Game
We always look forward to our ECT student community and our alumni joining us for this event. And we extend a special invitation to newly accepted Master of Arts and Advanced Certificate students!
G4LI -- Games for Learning Institute Speakers
Friday, May 1, 2009 (2:00 PM)
JAMES PAUL GEE
Games and 21st Century Learning
This talk will deal with how video games can organize deep conceptual understanding, as well as a variety of 21st Century skills not often on offer in our schools today. Unfortunately, as our schools have stressed skill and drill, some people are using games for this purpose, rather than using them to radically transform our broken and outdated educational system. Finally, I will discuss the different learning theories that underlie different approaches to games for learning.
Warren Weaver Hall Room 109 · 4th Street and Mercer · NYC
Monday, May 11, 2009 (2:00 PM)
DAPHNE BAVELIER
Action Video Game Playing as a Learning Tool
Although the adult brain is far from being fixed, the types of experience that promote learning and brain plasticity in adulthood are still poorly understood. Surprisingly, the very act of playing action video games appears to lead to widespread enhancements in visual skills in young adults. Action video game players have been shown to outperform their non-action-game playing peers on a variety of sensory and attentional tasks. They search for a target in a cluttered environment more efficiently, are able to track more objects at once and process rapidly fleeting images more accurately. This performance difference has also been noted in choice reaction time tasks, with video game players manifesting a large decrease in reaction time as compared to their non-action-game playing peers. A common mechanism may be at the source of this wide range of skill improvement. In particular, improvement in performance following action video game play can be captured by more efficient integration of information, or in other words, a more faithful Bayesian inference step, suggesting that action gamers may have learned to learn.
Pless Hall · 5th Floor Conference Room · 82 Washington Square East · NYC
Tuesday, May 26, 2009 (9:00 AM - 5:00 PM)
GAMES FOR LEARNING INSTITUTE SUMMIT
Join us the day before the 6th Annual Games for Change Festival (www.gamesforchange.org ) for a day of discussion and networking with educational game designers, developers, evaluators and users, as we consider the current landscape of games for learning and forge new collaborations to empirically develop design patterns for effective educational games. Present a poster about your current work and find out how you can join the Institute. Please email info@g4li.org for poster requirements and template and to RSVP for the summit.
King Juan Carlos Center · 53 Washington Square South · NYC