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Carol Strohecker |
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Future models of ICT - enabled
learning: What are the Implications for Schools? |
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Monday, 17 May 2004. |
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16.15 –17.15 |
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Carol Strohecker is a Senior Scientist
and Principal Investigator of the Everyday Learning research
group at Media Lab Europe (MLE), the European research
partner of the MIT Media Laboratory. She is concerned
with how people think and learn, and how their constructive
interactions with objects, artifacts and technologies
can facilitate these processes. Through developing and
examining tools and conditions for such interactions,
she seeks to understand the extent and range of diversity
in human thinking and learning. Accordingly her designs
for computational media support cognitive and affective
development while enabling studies of these processes.
Research interests include mobile sensing and computing,
intermodal forms for communication and expression, construction
kits modeling principles of math and science, and environments
supporting playful experimentation in complementary physical
and virtual domains.
Prior to joining MLE in 2001, Dr. Strohecker worked in the United
States at MERL - Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories and in the
Human Interface Group of Sun Microsystems. She earned the PhD of Media
Arts and Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in
1991 and the Master of Science in Visual Studies from MIT in 1986. She
contributed to early efforts in interactive video and has worked
extensively in publishing and print media. She holds 4 US patents for
her work in interactive media tools and methods, and has published
broadly in these areas.
Dr. Strohecker is currently a Lecturer in MIT's Media Arts and Sciences
Programme. She is a Vice-Chair of the International Conference on
Design Computing and Cognition and is on the editorial board of the MIT
Press journal, Presence, the Program Committee of ACM Technology
Enhanced Learning, and the Advisory Boards of Dublin's Liberties
Learning Initiative and the International Conference on Computational
and Cognitive Models of Creative Design. She has served as a
Presidential Nominee on the MIT Corporation Visiting Committee for the
Department of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences, and has held
Fellowships from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, the
Massachusetts Council for the Arts and Humanities, and the US National
Endowment for the Arts. For more than a decade she co-led backpacking
trips in national forests and wilderness areas throughout the United
States. |
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