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2018 Education Technology and Language Learning Seminar Report
Introduction 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...
Harvard Cross-Media Project: Leveraging the Educational Power of Stories and Bringing Local K12 Campuses Global
"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...
EdTech Enterprise Connects with Scholars to Explore Technology Potential in Language Learning at Harvard
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...
How easy access to stories told cross-media can bring ethics and aesthetics into daily classroom life (And why this matters in a social media-drenched world)
Written by Robert L. Selman and Randy M. Testa, Harvard University What does easy access via new technology in classrooms mean for stories told about the social world “cross-media,” that is, stories that shift from one content platform –say a book—to...
The tensions of critical global citizenship: Proposal for a qualitative study of Chinese international students' construction of being and becoming in US higher education
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...
Can Cross-media Story-telling (via Print, Script, and Film Clip) Enhance Students’ Cross-disciplinary Education? Middle School Teachers Share Their Perspectives
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...