DESIGN+SCIENCE+TECHNOLOGY
A symposium supporting the development of a children's traveling exhibition-Phoebe's Field-designed by a Virginia Tech team of students and faculty in design, science, engineering and education.
SCHEDULE (All Talks in Hancock Auditorium)
MONDAY, March 26
2:00 pm - Symposium Introduction and Lecture One:
GENDER and TECHNOLOGICAL DESIRE
by Cornelia Brunner
A talk about research that the Center for Children and Technology has been conducting for the past 20 years about the gender differences in how girls and boys (women and men) relate to technology.
3:00 pm - Coffee & Chocolate
3:30 pm - Lecture Two:
Part 1 TRENDS in FREE CHOICE LEARNING
by Chuck Howarth
A talk about broader trends in freechoice learning. We are living through a period of extraordinary change in the museum and science center field, driven in part by technology but even more by social trends and improved understanding of how people learn in museums.
Part 2 MUSEUMS in TRANSITION: EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
by Maia Werner-Avidon
A talk on the current trends in technology use within museums, based a on recently published paper: "Museums in Transition: Emerging Technologies as Tools for Free-Choice Learning."
TUESDAY, March 27
12:00 pm - Lunch with Cornelia Brunner in Squires 341 - for Graduate Students
[for information, see http://www.advance.vt.edu/]
2:00 pm - Lecture Three:
SCIENCE: A STORY TOLD with MODELS and METAPHORS
by Ilan Chabay
A talk about how the ideas of science are constructed as and communicated through models and metaphors. These form the basis of Phoebe's Field and of the exhibition that we are trying to design.
3:00 - 4:00 pm
- PUBLIC RECEPTION with EXHIBIT
Cowgill Hall Lobby
Design+Science+Technology is part of the development of the 2007 grant proposal to the National Science Foundation for building and traveling Phoebe's Field. After the symposium, the public lectures will be posted here. Contact: Mitzi Vernon, vernon@vt.edu.
SYMPOSIUM SPONSORS @ VIRGINIA TECH:
Vice President for Research + Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education + Dean of the Graduate School + College of Architecture & Urban Studies + College of Engineering + College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences + College of Science + AdvanceVT