6A.39: Time for TEE: A Freshman Seminar on Technology-Enabled
Education
Teaching staff:
Professor Richard Larson, Director CAES, rclarson@mit.edu
Katie Livingston Vale, EMCC/Academic Computing, katiel@mit.edu
Winnie Chan, Associate
Advisor, wchan@mit.edu
Alex Ianculescu, Associate Advisor, agian@mit.edu
Meeting time and location
3-5 PM Mondays. We'll meet in 9-253 for the first class; after that we'll
most likely hold classes in the New Media Center, 26-139.
Course description
TEE = Technology-Enabled Education. The web, multimedia,
streaming media and new learning styles -- they are changing the ways we
teach and learn. The seminar will take place within CAES, Center for
Advanced Educational Services. Professor Larson directs the Center and
will bring in specialists in video production, nonlinear editing, web
design, animation and more -- to engage and to teach all of us how to do
these wonderful things. There will be two student-led projects. For the
first students will design and create a web site that explains in pictures
and animation the famous "Bertrand's Paradox," a problem that gives three
apparently correct (and all different) answers to the puzzle: "Determine
the probability that a 'random chord' of a circle of unit radius has a
length greater than the square root of 3, the length of a side of an
inscribed equilateral triangle" The second will be a video production by
the students, streamed onto the web, on a subject that we all agree to be
exciting and important. No prior experience with web-oriented software is
required.
Syllabus
Week 1: Introduction to the class (9-253)
Week 2: Orientation to the New Media Center and multimedia tools
(26-139)
Week 3: Bertrand's Paradox
Additional weekly topics will be based on student interests and projects.
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