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The Education Group is a collaborative of graduate students, postdoctoral associates, research scientists, instructors, faculty, and technologists who have a strong interest in teaching and doing innovative work in science education. The group is largely focused on developing and implementing tools, materials, and resources for University-level and High School-level Biology education. Conceptually analogous to a laboratory research group, the Education Group was first created by HHMI Professor Graham Walker of the MIT Department of Biology in 2002.
We welcome members of the MIT community and other local institutions to join us in Education Group activities, which include a Seminar Series, Group Meetings, a journal club called Education Topics Teatime, various outreach activities, and other events and projects.
The Education Group is supported by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, which created the Society of HHMI Professors with the specific purpose of encouraging faculty at major research universities to devote more time to teaching undergraduates and developing new tools that engage students and enrich their science learning experience. Professor Graham Walker was among the first twenty HHMI Professors selected in 2002 by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute for their pilot program, and he was chosen again as one of the thirteen members of the HHMI Society of Professors for 2010-2014. The award provides resources for the Education Group to do some exciting work in Biology Education.
 Professor Kurt VanLehn
Title: How to build tutoring systems that are almost as effective as human tutors
Seminar Date & Time: Wednesday, June 12 @ 1:00 pm
Location: Biology Building, 68-181
Kurt VanLehn is the Diane and Gary Tooker Chair for Effective Education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University (ASU). He received a Ph. [Read more...]
 Dr. Saif Rayyan
Title: edX for MIT Residential Courses: Examples and Comparison to MOOCs
Group Meeting Date & Time: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 @ 2:00 pm
Location: Biology Building, 68-181
Dr. Saif Rayyan is a lecturer in the Physics department and the concourse program at MIT. He received his Ph.D. in theoretical particle physics from Virginia Tech before switching his interests to teaching and to [Read more...]
 Professor Michelle Smith
Title: Identifying and Changing Persistent Conceptual Difficulties in Biology
Seminar Date & Time: Monday, May 13, 2013 @ 2:00 pm
Location: Whitehead Institute Auditorium
Michelle Smith is an Assistant Professor at the University of Maine in the School of Biology and Ecology and the Research in STEM Education (RiSE) Center. Her work focuses on how to help students learn biology and instructors adopt promising educational [Read more...]
 Dr. Anique Olivier-Mason
Title: TA Bootcamp: Preparing graduate students to teach to a diverse student body and get the most out of their teaching experience
Group Meeting Date & Time: Monday, May 6, 2013 @ 2:00 pm
Location: Koch Institute, 76-559 (large conference room on the 5th floor)
As of August 2012, Dr. Anique Olivier-Mason is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute technical instructor at MIT. Through Cathy Drennan’s HHMI Education [Read more...]
 Professor David Pritchard
Title: Data Mining in 6.002x Informs On-Campus Education
Seminar Date & Time: Thursday, April 18, 2013 @ 2:00 pm
Location: Biology Building, 68-181
David E. Pritchard attended Caltech (B.S. 1962) and Harvard (Ph.D. 1968), and has been with Massachusetts Institute of Technology since, where he is now the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics. His research accomplishments span modern atomic physics, including laser [Read more...]
 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 [Read more...]
Would you like to visit a high school classroom and inspire high school students to become a scientist?
The Telling Your Story workshop aims to form collaborations resulting in classroom visits where STEM graduate students, postdocs and instructors will “tell the story” of how they became inspired to pursue a STEM career, and what their research/work and life is like now. This is a great opportunity for you to learn more about K-12 education and best practices for speaking with [Read more...]
 Professor Melanie Berkmen
Title: Double-dipping and connecting the dots: How to integrate skill-building and inquiry-based research into a biochemistry lab curriculum
Group Meeting Date & Time: Friday, March 29, 2013 @ 2:00 pm
View the slides from Professor Berkmen’s Group Meeting
Melanie Barker Berkmen first became involved in Professor Graham Walker’s original HHMI Education Group in 2002 while she was a Jane Coffin Child post-doctoral [Read more...]
 Dr. Yoav Bergner
Title: What science educators should know about psychometrics
Group Meeting Date & Time: Thursday, February 28, 2013 @ 2:00 pm
View the slides from Dr. Bergner’s Group Meeting
Yoav Bergner earned his Ph.D. in theoretical physics at MIT before becoming a sculptor and furniture-maker for five years, a public school science teacher for three years, and subsequently an education researcher. Dr. Bergner is currently [Read more...]
 Professor Eric Klopfer
Title: Learning Games are Hard Fun
Seminar Date & Time: Friday, February 1, 2013 @ 1:30 pm
View the slides from Professor Klopfer’s Seminar
Listen to the audio from Professor Klopfer’s Seminar
Eric Klopfer is Professor and Director of the Scheller Teacher Education Program (STEP) and The Education Arcade (TEA) at MIT. Professor Klopfer is also the co-founder [Read more...]
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