Ted Kahn | Learning to Create | BayCHI Monthly Speaker Series

Light dinner served at 6:30 pm PT. Feel free to bring your own if you prefer. We strive to support both in-person and remote attendance, so we'll also fire up the Zoom at that point to support virtual socializing.

Learning to Create: How "Kids of All Ages" Have used Digital Technologies to Co-Create the Future

Abstract

Creativity may be the highest form of human learning, which integrates both what we know—and enables us to explore what we don't know. Digital technologies have been interactive tools and both collaborative and communications platforms to augment human learning, as well as creative thinking for over 50 years.

This talk will explore a number of different kinds of creative activity mediated by digital technologies, as well as the socially situated nature of creating as learning, both individually and collaboratively. It will also document the central role that young people have played in the development of these technologies, especially since the birth of personal computers and video games all the way to virtual online communities, augmented reality, smart mobile phones and AI.

Bio

Dr. Ted M. and Fona Kahn created DesignWorlds for Learning & DesignWorlds which has mentored 1200+ aspiring high school and college students. He has been actively involved in R&D and marketing of innovative uses of interactive digitally mediated technologies for over 50 years. He has specialized in curating free digital and computational multimedia Web resources via open learning collaboratories to support distributed creative learning and knowledge design communities.

Ted has been affiliated with the Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, Berkeley; the Centre for Educational Technology and Hebrew University; Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC); Director of the Atari Institute for Educational Action Research, involved in two startups (Picodyne and Digital F/X), and Research Scientist at the Institute for Research on Learning (IRL). He has been a fellow/visiting scholar with UCLA Grad. School for Education & Information Studies, the NMC: New Media Consortium, MediaX at Stanford, and currently at the Center for Digital Curricula, University of Michigan. He received his B.A. in Computer Science and his Ph.D. in Psychology, both from University of California, Berkeley.

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910 Mockingbird Lane
Palo Alto, CA 94306

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