Affiliation: The Elumenati
Event Date: Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Location: NASA GSFC, Building 33, Room H114
Time: 12:00 PM
Absorbing the Big Picture: Immersion and Interactivity in Science Education
...new technologies too often provide little more than temporary novelty if they're not thoughtfully integrated with other pedagogical elements to create meaningful and compelling experiences.
In this lecture/presentation, David McConville will illustrate the ways in which new interactive technologies and spatially immersive displays can be utilized to more fully engage students and the public in the science education process. Applying findings from cognitive psychology, gaming theory, and experiential education research, he will demonstrate how new collaborative and socially-oriented visualization tools have the potential to enable more intuitive and self-directed learning for students, scientists, policy makers, and the public.
About Our Speaker
David McConville is a media artist and researcher focused on the development of the most compelling uses of immersive virtual environment displays. He is the co-founder and Director of Noospheric Research of The Elumenati,
Off Site Access
This talk will be Webcast at: http://mediaman.gsfc.nasa.gov/asx/Public/Live/Building33Live.asx
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