Category: EdTech Fair 2009

  • HyperStudio – Digital Humanities at MIT

    Poster Presentation/Demo Abstract HyperStudio – Laboratory for Digital Humanities explores the potential of new media technologies for the enhancement of education and research in the humanities. A range of projects in the humanities and social sciences along with on-line tools for education and research will be presented. HyperStudio website Statement of the problem or issue…

  • Developing the Electronic Textbook and a New Problem-Solving Pedagogy

    Poster Presentation/Demo Abstract Modeling Applied to Problem Solving Modeling[1] Applied to Problem Solving (MAPS) is a pedagogy that helps students transfer instruction to problem solving in an expert-like manner.  Declarative and Procedural syllabus content is organized and learned as a hierarchy of General Models.  Students solve problems using an explicit Problem Modeling Rubric that begins with System,…

  • A La Rencontre De Philippe: An Award Winning Interactive Story for Language Learning (on CD-ROM)

    Poster Presentation/Demo Abstract A la rencontre de Philippe is an original interactive fiction filmed in Paris, in which learners of French interact with the main character and try to help him solve his many problems. Philippe has just broken up with his live-in girlfriend and the student’s main task (among others) is to find him…