With strong support from the XMedia Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the US–China Youth Education Solutions (YES) Foundation, Doris Sommer, professor of literature at the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Perry Gao, co-founder of the XMedia Lab, hosted the 2018 Education Technology and Language Learning Seminar on November...
"Education Technology and Language Learning," a seminar hosted on November 19, 2018, by Doris Sommer, Professor of Literature at Harvard University, and Perry Gao, Co-founder of the Harvard XMedia Lab, invited the participation of world-renowned scholars and experienced industry professionals from Gogokid, a leading EdTech enterprise in China.
Technology has disruptively revolutionized almost every aspect imaginable in daily life and education is no exception. Institutions have assumed and continue to play an integral part in language learning. In the meantime, EdTech enterprise has started to reach out and connect with scholars, making contributions to language learning through providing technological solutions. How can the full potential of technology be utilized to promote language learning? With this question in mind, and strong support from the XMedia Lab at the Harvard Graduate School...
Written by Siwen Zhang, an advanced doctoral student at HGSE.
Chinese international students in American universities face a unique juxtaposition. They grew up in China, a one-party-polity and socialist market economy that prioritizes stabilization, and they also experience the US as an established democracy under a volatile administration. As the politics of Washington and the fear of the return of nationalist rhetoric become ever more incorporated in the US...
Almost from its advent, the film industry has eagerly taken great stories from literature, and translated them into major motion pictures. Nevertheless, even when financially successful, and, more surprisingly, even if critically acclaimed, to this day these well branded...