LSRI Speaker Series - Audio
Learning Sciences Research Institute Speaker Series (Audio) : This podcast delivers the audio from our speaker series. On occasion, the Center has guest speakers come and discuss their latest research and activities to a diverse audience here at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 81 minutes
- Episodes
- 27
- Years Active
- 2004 - 2007
Mary Beth Rosson, Professor, Stanford University
Over the past 25 years, user interface designers and usability engineers have studied and refined human-computer interaction techniques with the goal of improving people’s productivity and experience…
00:59:30 |
Fri 16 Nov 2007
Daniel Schwartz, Professor, Stanford University
Over the past years, we have been developing a computer learning technology called a Teachable Agent. The work leverages the common wisdom that people "really" learn when they have to teach. After a …
01:19:25 |
Fri 26 Oct 2007
Nathalie Sinclair, Professor, Simon Fraser University
I seek to establish insight into varieties of modeling that occur, recurrently, in students', teachers', and curriculum developers' experiences with The Geometer's Sketchpad. In this process, I attem…
01:02:09 |
Fri 19 Oct 2007
Nicholas Jackiw, Chief Technology Officer, KCP Technologies
In considering the geometric figure, Kant distinguishes between image--the traditional visual diagram--and schemata, the generalized concept of that diagram that "can never exist anywhere except in t…
01:11:15 |
Thu 18 Oct 2007
Melanie Cooper, Professor, Clemson University
Problem solving is one of the most important goals of any science course. However it is notoriously difficult to improve students’ problem solving abilities, and many students never develop competenc…
01:00:41 |
Tue 09 Oct 2007
Chris Quintana, University of Michigan
Design is an inherently interdisciplinary enterprise and the design of learning technologies is no exception. Learning technology designers must consider issues from a range of disciplines, such as s…
01:09:23 |
Wed 07 Feb 2007
Ryan S.J.d. Baker, Learning Sciences Research Institute, University of Nottingham
Detecting and Adapting to When Students Game the System: Students use intelligent tutors and other types of interactive learning environments in a considerable variety of ways. In this talk, Dr. Ryan…
00:48:46 |
Tue 23 Jan 2007
Brian Smith, The Pennsylvania State University
Acts into Artifacts: Computational Tools to Support Experience Capture and Reflection: Dr. Smith’s research deals with the design and evaluation of systems that capture aspects of everyday experienc…
01:14:24 |
Tue 16 Jan 2007
Alison Castro, University of Michigan
Learning how to use mathematics curriculum materials effectively is arguably an important part of the work of teaching. Through my work on the BIFOCAL Project, a multi-year professional development p…
01:29:58 |
Tue 04 Apr 2006
Nicole Pinkard, University of Chicago
Closing the Participation Gap: Creating a Technical and Learning Infrastructure to Support the Analysis of the Impact of Ubiquitous Computing on Urban Youth
01:29:58 |
Wed 22 Mar 2006
Flavio Azevedo, University of California Santa Cruz
Educators seeking to motivate students often do so by inquiring into students’ interests and designing instruction anchored in such interests. This approach is based on psychological theories of indi…
01:30:00 |
Mon 06 Mar 2006
Andrew Brantlinger, Northwestern University
Standards-based reforms in mathematics education place issues of equity front and center. Indeed, curriculum and instruction that is aligned with national standards appear to lead to more equitable o…
01:29:58 |
Thu 02 Mar 2006
Mike Stieff, University of California - Davis
Recent advancements in educational technologies have led to an explosion of visualization software for teaching and learning science, particularly chemistry. To varying degrees, visualization tools h…
01:25:00 |
Tue 28 Feb 2006
Eva Thanheiser, San Diego State University
Preservice Elementary School Teachers' Conceptions of Multidigit Whole Numbers
01:17:00 |
Thu 23 Feb 2006
Josh Radinsky, University of Illinois at Chicago
Learning to reason with visual data
01:28:00 |
Wed 22 Feb 2006
Marcelle Siegel, UC San Francisco
Decisions, Decisions: Assessing Students' and Preservice Teachers' Use of Scientific Evidence
01:25:00 |
Tue 21 Feb 2006
Joe Krajcik, University of Michigan
Scaffolding Students in Writing Evidence-Based Scientific Explanations: Developing evidence-based explanations is a critical aspect of science. Recent science reform documents and efforts advocate th…
01:30:00 |
Fri 27 Jan 2006
Danny Martin
Race, Identity, and Mathematics Literacy: African American Counternarratives
01:30:00 |
Thu 12 Jan 2006
Yvonne Rogers
Geologists, biologists, climatologists, seismologists and other scientists nowadays use a diversity of sensing devices and measuring instruments to record aspects of the earth, in order to investigat…
01:30:00 |
Sun 16 Oct 2005
Richard Halverson
Abstract Recent policy demands for external accountability are challenging instructional leaders to rethink how they have traditionally guided the practices of teaching and learning in schools. I wil…
01:30:00 |
Fri 16 Sep 2005
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are the property of Learning Sciences Research Institute. This content is not affiliated with or endorsed by eachpod.com.