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2018 Education Technology and Language Learning Seminar Report

January 9, 2019

 

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          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...

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Harvard Cross-Media Project: Leveraging the Educational Power of Stories and Bringing Local K12 Campuses Global

December 12, 2018

 "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.

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EdTech Enterprise Connects with Scholars to Explore Technology Potential in Language Learning at Harvard

December 12, 2018

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...

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The tensions of critical global citizenship: Proposal for a qualitative study of Chinese international students' construction of being and becoming in US higher education

December 14, 2017

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...

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Can Cross-media Story-telling (via Print, Script, and Film Clip) Enhance Students’ Cross-disciplinary Education? Middle School Teachers Share Their Perspectives

December 5, 2017

Written by Robert L. Selman and Tracy Elizabeth

     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...

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