PacificRim

Presentation Outline

David:
 * Introduction to The MIND Project
 * TMP's Learning Community
 * Researchers, K-12 Teachers, College Faculty, Education Specialists, Institutes
 * Virtual Science Labs
 * Education Research
 * Reaching different ages, different courses, and different cultures with virtual experiences.

Dear Team, I have been madly working with Andrew to get the pages you requested (for the Teacher Dev page), videos to Paul Garris of his computer simulation, and I’ve been thinking about what our approach should be to the conference. Since I wasn’t able to reach any of you by phone (you haven’t been hiding from me have you?), I decided to write down my thoughts. 30 minute session means a 20 minute presentation that will actually take 23 minutes by the time you set up, etc. .. leaving 7 minutes for discussion. Of the 23 minutes, 10 minutes are required just to play the two introductory videos. What then do we do with the remaining 13 minutes. Well at least 3 minute introducing each video, explaining the kinds of courses it will be used in (middle: science, high school: bio, health, college: ed, cog sci) and other things you want to say. That leaves 7 minutes for my introduction (if I’m lucky). Well it will take 3 minutes just to introduce ourselves and say briefly what the mind project IS. That leaves 4 minutes. And it occurred to me that we should not just be “hawking our wares” at a special Pacific Rim conference. We should speak to this specific audience. So here is the idea. I talk about how we are not just virtual lab creators, we are education researchers. We want to see how these labs work. We want to see if they will reached under-represented groups. We want to see if they work equally well within different cultures – or whether we have to modify them and have different versions for different cultures and age-groups. Please let me know what you think of that idea. Also, we will need very few slides given what little we have to say. May only one or two or three each. We could get by with NONE – but having something on the screen will help them remember a few of the key points. Please let me know your thoughts in an email or call me if you want to “talk.” David

Darci
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