Dr. Jennifer French
Title: Using Video to Tie Engineering Themes to Foundational Concepts
Group Meeting Date & Time: Thursday, April 11, 2013 @ 2:00 pm
Location: Koch Institute, 76-156 (small room at the back of the auditorium)
Dr. Jennifer French joined the Teaching and Learning Laboratory as a Postdoctoral Associate for Mathematics Education in April 2011. She has been creating videos and instructional materials designed to encourage active classroom participation, deep learning, and transfer of knowledge across disciplines. She has a Ph.D. in math from MIT, and loves teaching elementary students the “joy of mathematics”. During her group meeting, Dr. French will discuss a 2 year project funded by the Singapore University of Technology and Design to create instructional videos designed to encourage active learning and teaching methodologies in the classroom, as well as to encourage transfer by tying fundamental concepts to engineering themes and examples.
