{"id":1268,"date":"2010-02-08T05:00:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T10:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=1268"},"modified":"2010-02-08T23:35:28","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T04:35:28","slug":"new-media-projects-for-hait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2010\/02\/08\/new-media-projects-for-hait\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Topic class announcement:  New Media Projects For Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Special Topic:  <a href=\"http:\/\/krikkrak.media.mit.edu\/mas963\">New Media Projects For Haiti<\/a><BR><br clear='none'\/>\n2-0-7 (9 credits)<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>A project-based class to develop new technologies and educational tools<br clear='none'\/>\nthat will contribute to progressive social changes in Haiti. We will<br clear='none'\/>\nexplore viable contexts for promoting self-expression, communication,<br clear='none'\/>\nliteracy and numeracy, and digital governance, given current challenges<br clear='none'\/>\nand strengths within the society. Topics will include sensors, language,<br clear='none'\/>\nmusic, computational methods for teaching and learning, civic engagement<br clear='none'\/>\nand social media.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Participants will choose a societal problem and devise a solution, with<br clear='none'\/>\nthe goal of spending the last week of April in Haiti field testing and<br clear='none'\/>\ndocumenting their solution.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Guest lecturers will include Joe Paradiso, Michel DeGraff,  Henry<br clear='none'\/>\nLieberman, Judith Donath, Claudia Urrea, Chris Csikszentmihalyi and<br clear='none'\/>\nCharles Kane.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Barry Vercoe, Dale Joachim<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special Topic: New Media Projects For Haiti 2-0-7 (9 credits) A project-based class to develop new technologies and educational tools that will contribute to progressive social changes in Haiti. We will explore viable contexts for promoting self-expression, communication, literacy and numeracy, and digital governance, given current challenges and strengths within the society. Topics will include [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1270,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions\/1270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}