Excelling at MIT and beyond: Developing a "Growth Mindset"
Lourdes Aleman, Research Scientist
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: None
Many students arrive at MIT riding on years of academic success and praise from teachers, parents, and colleagues. But what happens when you encounter uncertainty and failure? Have you been in a challenging class where you worry about how others will perceive you if don't sound "smart" enough? When you fail to achieve a specific goal, how do you manage and overcome discouragement and self-doubt? In this course, we will examine how our own notions of potential and ability can have a fundamental impact how we approach our work, how much we learn, and how successful we can be in achieving our goals. The course will focus on recent, evidence-based insights regarding human performance, neuroplastictiy, motivation and on how deliberately cultivating a "growth-mindset" can improve our willingness and ability to face challenges and to innovate, despite the risk of failure.
This course is limited to 20 students. Please send a brief description of who you are and why you would like to take this course to Lourdes Alemán at laleman@mit.edu. You will be notified via e-mail to confirm registration. Registration is opened until 1/8.
Sponsor(s): Office of Educational Innovation and Technology, Biology
Contact: Lourdes Aleman, 617 715-5348, LALEMAN@MIT.EDU
| Jan/12 | Tue | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 8-205 |
How people learn, neurosplasticity, struggling and how it relates to learning.
Lourdes Aleman - Research Scientist
| Jan/15 | Fri | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 8-205 |
The relationship between different types of mindset, learning and achievement.
Lourdes Aleman - Research Scientist
| Jan/19 | Tue | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 8-205 |
Learning to embrace challenges and learning from them: cultivating a growth mindset.
Lourdes Aleman - Research Scientist
| Jan/22 | Fri | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 8-205 |
Using deliberate practice to improve learning and achievement.
Lourdes Aleman - Research Scientist
MathWorks: MATLAB Seminars by MathWorks
Tim Mathieu
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: Register at the link below:
Please join MathWorks during IAP 2016 for a hands-on workshop and/or technical seminar designed to improve MATLAB skills. Please register at the following link:
https://go2.mathworks.com/matlab-seminars-at-mit-iap-sem-na-1244758
Sponsor(s): Office of Educational Innovation and Technology
Contact: Tim Mathieu, MathWorks, (Register at the link above), Tim.Mathieu@mathworks.com
| Jan/26 | Tue | 10:00AM-12:00PM | W31-301 |
Session 1: Parallel Computing with MATLAB
In this session you will learn how to solve computationally and data-intensive problems using multicore processors, GPUs, and computer clusters. We will introduce you to high-level programming constructs that allow you to parallelize MATLAB applications and run them on multiple processors.
| Jan/26 | Tue | 01:00PM-05:00PM | W31-301 |
Session 2: Introduction to MATLAB: Problem Solving and Programming
In this hands-on workshop, you will learn the essentials of using MATLAB for your classes or research, including how to import data from an external file, plot the data over time, and perform some analysis to view the data trends.
MathWorks: Simulink Workshop
Tim Mathieu
| Jan/14 | Thu | 01:00PM-05:00PM | W31-301 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Prereq: Register at link below
The Simulink Workshop is a 3-4 hour hands-on tutorial of Simulink, the block diagram environment integrated with MATLAB for multidomain simulation and design.
Structure
During the workshop, each attendee follows along with the presenter in creating a Simulink model from scratch and then building upon and improving that model throughout the session.
Many Simulink features are introduced during the workshop, including:
Vectorization
No Simulink experience is assumed or necessary.
Benefits
Learn the fundamentals of Simulink through hands-on instruction from a product expert.
Learn how Simulink is used for the following applications:
Algorithm design & simulation
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Please join us for a complimentary Simulink Workshop. Faculty, staff, researchers and students are all welcome to attend. Registration is at the following link:
https://go2.mathworks.com/simulink-workshop-at-iap-sem-na-1264939
Sponsor(s): Office of Educational Innovation and Technology
Contact: Tim Mathieu, MathWorks, (register at link above), Tim.Mathieu@mathworks.com
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