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| Title | Engineering the Mind: Old Models, New Directions |
| Speaker |
Sanjay Chandrasekharan,
Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
Dr. Sanjay Chandrasekharan is an Associte Professor at the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, and an adjunct faculty member, Interdisciplinary Program in Educational Technology, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He leads the Learning Sciences Research (LSR) Group at HBCSE, which draws on recent theories of cognition to build and test novel computational media for learning science, technology and mathematics. The results from these studies contribute to the design of new approaches to learning, as well as help develop novel theoretical models of higher order cognition. |
| Date & Time | Monday, 25 March 2019 | 10:00-11:00 |
| Venue | Kelkar Lab, CMS, SPPU. |
| Abstract | Science education seeks to engineer the human mind, using social interactions (classrooms, teachers) and interactions with external representations (textbooks, exams). Following this view, science education research needs to develop better models of human cognition and learning, so that the process of engineering of the mind can be better optimised, particularly using new computational representations. I first outline a research program based on this optimisation approach to science learning. I then argue that such optimisation approaches to science learning are misguided, as they cannot help us understand the ways in which computational modeling is rapidly changing science cognition and learning. An alternate research direction is then sketched, based on an analysis of the ways in which human cognition and learning changed historically, with the advent of writing technologies. |
| Organizer/Host | Pranav Kulkarni (pranav.kulkarni AT cms.unipune.ac.in) / Abhinav Raj (abhinav.raj AT cms.unipune.ac.in) |
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