Members of the STEP Lab are running a special issue of well played!

Posted on the Carnegie Mellon University ETC Press Website: https://press.etc.cmu.edu/news/well-played-journal-special-issue-cfp-ar-and-vr-games Well Played Journal Special Issue CFP: AR and VR Games Posted by: etcpress January 17, 2023 Edited by Ira Fay and Dan Roy AR and VR games are growing in popularity and access, while also increasing in the variety of experiences Read more

By Mary McCrossan, ago

Advice and responses from faculty on ChatGPT and A.I.-assisted writing

The full post can be found on the CMS/W website here: https://cmsw.mit.edu/advice-and-responses-from-faculty-on-chatgpt-and-a-i-assisted-writing/#future-of-writing “Several faculty members in CMS/W have expertise, both technological and pedagogical, in what the use of ChatGPT and other A.I. tools may mean for the instruction of academic writing. Because instructors at MIT and elsewhere have expressed some urgency in Read more

By Mary McCrossan, ago

School Stories

“School Stories”, a special subject course in literature that explores education equity through the eyes of creative writers and critical theorists, is looking to partner with MIT education outreach programs this spring to provide an experiential learning component to the course. Undergraduates in this course will be required to volunteer to tutor Read more

By Mary McCrossan, ago

SEPT 2022

We are excited to be moving forward with the planning of an ON CAMPUS Science and Engineering Program for Teachers in 2022 as we did pre-pandemic, onsite and housed at MIT with the 56 teachers accepted in 2020 from Sunday, June 26th- Friday, July 1st. This group of teachers joined Read more

By Mary McCrossan, ago

Full STEAM Ahead

We are excited to announce Full STEAM Ahead – MIT’s new website welcoming kids, parents, educators and lifelong learners to explore resources from K-12 and beyond! Full STEAM Ahead is a website MIT has assembled to share science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) based instructional materials for a global Read more

By Mary McCrossan, ago

BioGraph Summer Course Enrollment

Are you looking for an interesting professional development to participate in that has consistently shown to increase students’ engagement and learning in biology? We want to invite you to join a free online course for science educators running in the summer of 2020 called BioGraph: Teaching Biology Through Systems, Models, Read more

By Mary McCrossan, ago

MIT pSims Launch

The notion of complex systems is central to many of today’s most pressing societal challenges, from tackling climate change to developing new pharmaceutical drugs to understanding the spread of diseases. Yet these complex systems are often hard to understand as they can be difficult for teachers to represent and for Read more

By Mary McCrossan, ago